James Dobson Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Father, Years

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• Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

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  Love, Marriage, Commitment

  James C. Dobson (1997). “Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families”, Tyndale House Pub

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

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  Children, Covered Up, Parent

  James C. Dobson (2014). “The New Strong-Willed Child”, p.125, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Children, Teenager, Real

  James C. Dobson (1997). “Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Those who are the happiest are not neccessarily those for whom life has been easiest.

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  Has Beens

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• 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.

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  Inspirational Life, Smooth Sailing, Today

  James Dobson (2001). “38 Values to Live By”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

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  Heart, Names, Tears

  James C. Dobson (2012). “When God Doesn't Make Sense”, p.198, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

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  Husband, Wife, Frustrated

  James C. Dobson (2014). “Bringing Up Girls: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Women”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Hate, Home

  James C. Dobson (1997). “Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families”, Tyndale House Pub

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• A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

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  Perspective, Perfection, Healthy

  Dr. James Dobson (2012). “Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance”, p.67, Multnomah

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

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  Gay, People, Choices

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. November 22, 2006.

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

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  Advice, Criticize, Constructive

  Dr. James Dobson (1980). “What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women”

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• Tell me why it is that a toddler will gag over a perfectly wonderful breakfast of ham, eggs, biscuits, juice, and jelly. But then he will enthusiastically drink the dog's water and play in the toilet. Truly, he is his mother's greatest challenge...; and her most inexpressible joy.

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  Mother, Dog, Play

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

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  Christian, Sick, Guy

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• God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it

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  Giving, Doe, Needs

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

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  Army, Two, Way

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• 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.

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  Meaningful, Prayer, Years

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

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  People, Pedestal, Steps

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

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  Love, Marriage, Eye

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

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  Children, Discipline, People

  James C. Dobson (2014). “The New Dare to Discipline”, p.7, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Stress, Reality, Hardship

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• [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.

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  Pain, Children, Long

  "Dare to Discipline" by James Dobson, (pp. 6-7), 1970.

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• 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?

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  Animal, Community, Privilege

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• 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.

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  Running, Cutting, Successful

  James C. Dobson (1995). “Life on the Edge”, W Publishing Group

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

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  Faith In God, Surprise, God Life

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