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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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James Dobson
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: April 21
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Shreveport
Louisiana
James Clayton Jim Dobson
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.
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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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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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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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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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Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.
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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
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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.
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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.
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Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.
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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.
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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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The right to criticize must be earned, even if the advice is constructive in nature.
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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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You have to work to keep love alive you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.
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God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it
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I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience.
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