Take your children when they yet lisp and have them kneel down by your knee or by their cribs or beds in the evening when they go to bed. Lead them in their prayers until they get big enough and know enough that they can pray by themselves. . . . I don't know a thing in my life that I owe more to, for not being worse than I am, than the practice my mother trained me to when I was a child. To this day, my conscience won't let me go to bed at night or leave my room in the morning without saying my prayers on my knees, if I am where I can get on my knees. If I am where I can't get on my knees, I say them as I lie in my bed. If your children will always do this, they will not go far astray.
Marion G. Romney. Marion G. Romney: His Life and Faith by F. Burton Howard. Bookcraft. Salt Lake City. 1988. P.40. Originally in the 52nd Annual Primary Conference, April 3, 1958.
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