Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.
President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint. . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives. "