"Jacob censured the "stiffnecked" Jews for "looking beyond the mark" (Jacob 4:14). We are looking beyond the mark today, for example, if we are more interested in the physical dimensions of the cross than in what Jesus achieved thereon; or when we neglect Alma's words on faith because we are too fascinated by the light-shielding hat reportedly used by Joseph Smith during some of the translating of the Book of Mormon. To neglect substance while focusing on process is another form of unsubmissively looking beyond the mark."
Neal A. Maxwell (1988), Not My Will, But Thine, Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, p. 26
http://fi.fairmormon.org/Church_history/Accuracy_of_Church_art#endnote_fn12
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