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Children represent God's most generous gift to us.

James Dobson

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James Dobson
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: April 21
Author
Businessperson
Non-Fiction Writer
Politician
Psychologist
Radio Personality
Shreveport
Louisiana
James Clayton Jim Dobson
Children
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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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The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.
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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.
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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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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.
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We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.
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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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If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
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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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Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.
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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.
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My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
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Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.
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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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Show me a husband who keeps his thoughts to himself, and I will show you a frustrated wife.
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We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.
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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.
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Touching Hearts, Changing Lives.
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