James Dobson Quotes

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.

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

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.

Faith in God - life can never take you by surprise again.

When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.

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.

Trust involves letting go and knowing God will catch you.

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

Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as I rest in Him.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

[P]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.

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

'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.

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

The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Children represent God's most generous gift to us.

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

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'.

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.

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.

Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to change a deeply ingrained pattern, you have to build a sturdy dam, dig another canal and reroute the river in the new direction. That effort is rarely successful over the long haul.

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.

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

The right to criticize must be earned, even if the advice is constructive in nature.

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.

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.

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.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

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

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