Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

I've heard my father say that the man is to be the priest, the provider, and the protector of his family. He's the priest because he is the spiritual leader, monitoring and growing the spiritual temperature of his family.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.

You know, I'm a father. I'm a brother. I'm a son. And I'm a grandfather. So many times I have to be the intermediary, the person to referee and help solve disputes and to protect and to guide.

The role of matriarch and patriarch are distinct, and in the King family, we have been blessed with strong examples of both.

To all of us, Dad was Number One in our house.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

My husband is a good father, concerned about his children.

I've never wanted my kid faced with the idea of, 'Who's the fat guy sitting in the living room? What the hell is he doing?' I figure I might as well go to work so he can say his dad works.

I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.

It's time for the fathers to get involved in the spiritual activities of their families. For too long, the women have carried more than their share of family responsibility.

I've got to be a guide to my kids. Nobody else is going to do it.

If my kids look up to a man bigger and better than me, then that's me not doing my job.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.