Dr James C Dobson quotes

" I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. " # Marriage # Expectation # Friends and Friendship

" 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. " # Children # Love # Guests

" 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. " # Children # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

" "[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." " # Children # Love # Pain

" "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.'" " # Children # Obedience # Life and Living

" "Here at Focus on the Family, we're not political." " # Politicians and Politics # Family # Focus

" "Isn't it amazing that there's such a sizable number of people in the media and in the liberal community that despise this country and its freedoms, and they're doing everything they can to undermine it?" " # Freedom # Media # Liberals

" "Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth." " # Marriage

" Exchange between Larry King and James Dobson that aired on September 18, 2002 on CNN's Larry King Live " # America # Kings # Friends and Friendship

" The Mark Foley affair has "turned out to be what some people are now saying was a -- sort of a joke by the boy and some of the other pages" who came forward with sexually explicit instant messages that Foley sent. " # Sex # Love # Books - Reading