James Dobson famous quotes

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.
-- James Dobson

#Children #Parent #Important

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
-- James Dobson

#Love #Relationship #Marriage

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
-- James Dobson

#Smile #Christian #Responsibility

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.
-- James Dobson

#Marriage #Commitment #Succeed

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
-- James Dobson

#Children #Father #Home

I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.
-- James Dobson

#Country #America #People

Trust involves letting go and knowing God will catch you.
-- James Dobson

#Letting Go #Knowing #Gods Will

One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.
-- James Dobson

#Meaningful #Prayer #Years

If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.
-- James Dobson

#Inspirational Life #Sailing #Today

By learning to yield to the loving authority... of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.
-- James Dobson

#Teacher #Children #School

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.
-- James Dobson

#Children #Parent #Covered

Communities do not let prostitutes, pedophiles, voyeurs, adulterers, and those who sexually prefer animals to publicly celebrate their lifestyles, so why should homosexuals get such privileges?
-- James Dobson

#Animal #Community #Privilege

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.
-- James Dobson

#Husband #Father #Home

The Lord doesn't always remove the sources of stress in our lives...but He's always there and cares for us. We can feel His arms around us on the darkest night.
-- James Dobson

#Stress #Night #Care

If a woman plans to terminate her pregnancy, she commonly refers to the life within her as the 'fetus'. But if she intends to deliver and love and care for the little child, she affectionately calls him 'my baby'.
-- James Dobson

#Baby #Children #Pregnancy

Show me a husband who keeps his thoughts to himself, and I will show you a frustrated wife.
-- James Dobson

#Husband #Wife #Frustrated

It will always hurt to be laughed at, snubbed, ignored or attacked by others. But I would remind you that the human personality grows through adversity, provided it is not crushed in the process.
-- James Dobson

#Hurt #Adversity #Personality

Children represent God's most generous gift to us.
-- James Dobson

#Children #Generous

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.
-- James Dobson

#Gratitude #Children #Lifestyle

What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.
-- James Dobson

#Sex #Stress #Kids

It is very important to understand that pluralism is part of our system. We don't all think the same thing and part of our strength is that we come from different perspectives. We have to respect one another even when we disagree with each other. There has to be a spirit of tolerance for the views of others, while also being deeply committed to the positions we hold. If we do that, I think we can coexist and learn to love each other better.
-- James Dobson

#Religious #Thinking #Views

Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.
-- James Dobson

#Army #Two #Way

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.
-- James Dobson

#Children #Discipline #People

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future course for the nation.
-- James Dobson

#Believe #Thinking #People

It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.
-- James Dobson

#Family #Loyalty #Children

We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.
-- James Dobson

#Christian #Children #Giving

Ain is a marvelous purifier... It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.
-- James Dobson

#Children #Pain #Long

A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.
-- James Dobson

#Girl #Hate #Home

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.
-- James Dobson

#Wisdom #Persistence #Important

There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.
-- James Dobson

#Stress #Reality #Hardship

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
-- James Dobson

#Children #Men #Helping

Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.
-- James Dobson

#Christian #Sick #Guy

I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.
-- James Dobson

#Gay #People #Choices

My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.
-- James Dobson

#Strong #Faithful #Important

Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.
-- James Dobson

#Girl #Boys #Individual

Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.
-- James Dobson

#Motivation #Mean #Men

Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.
-- James Dobson

#Men #Thinking #Omnipotence

Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.
-- James Dobson

#Mean #Men #Culture

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
-- James Dobson

#Law #Land #Institutions

A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.
-- James Dobson

#Government #President #Alarms

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.
-- James Dobson

#New York #School #Gay

Barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself. This is a time for concerted prayer, divine wisdom and greater courage than we have ever been called upon to exercise,
-- James Dobson

#Prayer #Fall #Exercise

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.
-- James Dobson

#Men #Two #Three

You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.
-- James Dobson

#Flower #Alive #Like You

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
-- James Dobson

#Inspirational Life #Authority #Form

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
-- James Dobson

#Our World #Views #Election

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
-- James Dobson

#Leadership #Husband #Waiting

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.
-- James Dobson

#Love #Marriage #Eye

My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me?
-- James Dobson

#Dad #Father #Men

When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.
-- James Dobson

#Father #Years #Gone

Real crying usually lasts two minutes or less, but may continue for five. After that point, the child is merely complaining... I would require him to stop the protest crying, usually by offering him a little more of whatever caused the original tears.
-- James Dobson

#Children #Real #Offering

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.
-- James Dobson

#Christian #United States #Values

It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.
-- James Dobson

#Unique #Giving #Vitality

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.
-- James Dobson

#Children #War #Book

It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.
-- James Dobson

#Prayer #Fatherhood #Needs

Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's a beautiful image of a father.
-- James Dobson

#Beautiful #Father #Years

To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us...
-- James Dobson

#Forever #Ted Bundy #Conservative

Touching Hearts, Changing Lives.
-- James Dobson

#Life Changing #Heart #Touching

Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.
-- James Dobson

#Believe #Choices #President

Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.
-- James Dobson

#Prayer #Judging #Wisconsin

I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.
-- James Dobson

#Gay #Rose #People

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
-- James Dobson

#Marriage #Couple #Elude

Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. . . [T]wo or three stinging strokes on the legs or buttocks with a switch are usually sufficient to emphasize the point, 'You must obey me.'
-- James Dobson

#Strong #Children #Wish

It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.
-- James Dobson

#Powerful #Moving #Film

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
-- James Dobson

#Children #Real #Teenager

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
-- James Dobson

#Girl #Sex #Kids

I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience,
-- James Dobson

#Matter #Vote #Mccain

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.
-- James Dobson

#Earth #Want #Institutions

I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.
-- James Dobson

#Vote #Circumstances #Mccain