"We have been reserved in the spirit world for thousands of years, to stand in
the flesh in the latter days, and to take God's kingdom and build it up.
Understanding these things then, what are we, as Latter-day Saints, thinking
about? We have got a great warfare to fight. Lucifer, the son of the morning,
and all his hosts, are united against us. We are but a little handful,
compared with the inhabitants of the earth. There never were but few men and
women, in any age of the world, who were independent enough to reject evil and
to serve the Lord. But we have been counted worthy to be numbered as His
people. It is time, therefore, that we arose, that we awoke, and that, clothed
upon with the power of God and the Holy Priesthood, we should magnify this
Priesthood and obtain the blessings belonging thereto." -Wilford Woodruff, in
Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff [2004], 29-30