American Quotes

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

Time was God's first creation.

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.