Top 70 Kirk Franklin Quotes

Let’s let people heal.

I just keep trying and failing and I will continue to keep trying to see what I can do to try to keep people engaged in the conversation about our Lord and Savior, man. Really that’s all I’m trying to do.

You could always tell intent by how people spend their money. How people spend their money is a reflection of their heart.

I am a Christian. With all my being. My heart loves Jesus 100.

I’ve never wanted to be a liar because truth heals me.

People come to my concerts from all walks of life. I tried to break barriers down.

What saved me from the hood was Christian faith motivated by music.

That’s why gospel will never be pop music – it’s not something that’d be everyone’s cup of tea.

Well, I feel that the pursuit of trying to know who God is, and trying to be known by God, can be lost in religion. Because religion, all that it is, is man’s attempt to try to put a definition on something that is very hard to define.

My main message is to preach God’s word, pure and truthful. But also make it swaggalicious.

If I’m writing and doing music celebrating the Creator, who is the most creative being in the world – I mean, when you look at nature and when you look at all of the beautiful created things – why should I be limited in expressing myself? He’s creative, so why shouldn’t my music be creative, too?

You can’t sing about Jesus too long without Him changing you.

Music was always a part of me.

I’ve seen people fall in love with God, or come to see God loving them, through a relationship.

It makes you feel good when you do a song that, sonically, can fit right next to Drake. But our audience, they don’t care. And it hurts that they don’t care!

If anyone has a problem with me, they can just take it up with God.

Hate and bigotry should not be carrying a Bible and dressing up like a so called child of God.

Religion, throughout the years, has become a very oppressive thing that doesn’t allow people to get to know the God it was created to try to lead them to.

I don’t want to fall – I want to stay prayerful, I want God to stay pleased with my life.

I’m not trying to be a spiritual leader to the stars. I think that title is very gross.

I’m an advocate for therapy.

Well, one thing that I’ve learned is that love and fear cannot occupy the same space. So, one of the weapons to defeat fear is love. Learning the power of love and being loved by the creator of love. Being loved by God himself.

You can’t lose with truth. Truth transforms.

Since Jesus is the truth, if you follow him, you must be truthful, no matter what the personal cost.

The core of what we do is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and my music is a reflection of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s not as much inspirational as it is spreading the Gospel.

You know, when you read stories in the Bible – you know, Samson, the story of David or the story of Moses – you know, there’s conflict on the way to the victory.

There’s no truth without love and love can’t exist without truth.

While we fight and argue about abortion and sexual orientation, we apparently forgot one of the greatest sins that God continuously acknowledges He hates: pride.

I’m very committed to a diet and very committed to exercise.

The kids, they want to come to spirituality. But we have to meet them where we are.

Most gospel music is very vertical. And there’s nothing wrong with that – there’s nothing wrong with, you know, ‘God, we praise you,’ and ‘hallelujah.’ Those songs are very important. But I also like to do songs that are very horizontal, that kind of fit within the fabric of people’s everyday life.

I believe that if the Bible calls anything a sin, it’s listed in the same category as you would list pride, as you would list hate, as you would list any other thing.

Sometimes it feels very homophobic when people try to make their stance and their beliefs, and there’s been some very painful, ugly things that have been said… that not have always been in the essence of a heart for Christ.

I was adopted when I was 4. The woman who adopted me, she was 64 years old.

It’s important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.

Whether it’s Kendrick Lamar or J. Cole or Common there are a lot of artists, especially rappers, who come from a background with a faith-based substance, and it’s time for that substance to be celebrated and appreciated.

Christian music, gospel music, sometimes you’ll fall asleep at church but music wakes you up, the song can speak to you in a way that’s puts a fire in you. So if I’m working with a mainstream artist I’m trying to find a bigger purpose.

My heart really is about making sure that the conversation of Jesus Christ is something that can be a relevant conversation regardless of where culture finds itself.

My first triumph was turning Elton John’s ‘Benny and the Jets’ into a gospel tune.

There’s always a new experience that has to be communicated.

What I want to say about the Kanye thing is that whoever wants me to be in their life – whether it’s a rapper, celebrity, janitor, banker, newsman, teacher – my job is to be a light for God and Christ. Whoever I’m with and whatever I’m doing, that’s my purpose.

Sometimes I long for the parents I didn’t have; that’s a recurring nightmare.

A lot of times we make God to be this protagonist to our hope and our joy, and to be this old, grumpy man with this long beard and white robe. That is so counterintuitive to the heart of God.

I think that sometimes we have compromised quality content for the fear of Christianity, and I think that they both can co-exist.

If we are so holy and so perfect and never interact with people that may not go to church or may not be where we think we are, then how will they ever get light?

Whatever my lens is, it’s always going to be trying my best to see something through what I believe is going to be God’s word, and not God’s word in the essence of dogma or in the essence of religion, or to be right and to make other people wrong.

My phone bill is four thousand dollars when I’m out of the country.

I wasn’t trying to be no national name or nothing. I didn’t have that idea to even think that was possible.

More than anything, I’m trying to peel back those layers that keep people away from God and keep people away from experiencing the love of God and knowing God’s love as a father.

I trust that if God gives me music for someone else, that’s what He wants that person to have. I have to trust that that’s what they’re supposed to do and that’s the music that should specifically be released for them and their ministry, for their career and for their audience.

The Bible is not a book that’s an attack on gay people. It’s not a book written to attack gay people.

God is a God of truth, I believe that God’s love is the truth.

We’ve gotta be able to change that climate so that people feel more comfortable to be honest about their wounds.

I would never say that claiming you’re a Christian is wrong. I understand that there is a human aspect of being able to identify people whether it’s African American, Hispanic or Asian. But the definition doesn’t define the relationship, meaning you can be married and still not know intimacy.

Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It’s good-news music.

All Scripture is God-breathed… but what we have to understand also is that the Canon of Scripture still is coming from a place of a loving God.

I hope in telling the truth, I can heal others.

I prefer being flawed and I prefer being seen flawed.

Anyone that has a microphone, that temptation for the voice to be bigger than the message is always there.

I really love New York. I just love the aesthetics and the spirit of New York. I’ve just always loved the energy of it. When you’re flying into New York and you look out of the window, it’s like you’re flying into another planet. I’ve never stopped being amazed at it.

I’m very cautious to not be too observant, or too consumed with what works and what doesn’t work, because I think that’s when you fail.

I’ve worked with kids in a youth ministry in California.

Wanting to be happy is something that every human being aspires to have.

It is horrible that we have made it where the Bible is a homophobic manual. That’s not what the Bible is.

If we were not sinners, Jesus would not have had to come. If he didn’t see us as sinners, he could have loved us without dying for us. He died for our sins. So if we’re all sinners, that means everybody’s in the pot together needing the same love, the same grace and the same forgiveness.

I’m borderline vegan.

What’s funny is that in the ’90s, growing up in the black church, everyone around you was older, so your swag became older.

I am a student of good and bad, and I’ve always been inquisitive. I never want to be the know-it-all in a room. I want to be in the room of those that are thinkers and people that are compassionate, people that have drive and ambition. I’m always driven by it.

I don’t work with an artist to try to blow up, but to see if the music can be medicine, if it can be therapeutic and serve a bigger purpose.