151 Quotes by James Dobson

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.

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

Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God’s infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.

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

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.

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience – what they see, hear, think, and believe – will determine the future course for the nation.

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.

If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he’ll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don’t have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.