Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Kirk Franklin
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Kirk Franklin.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I am a Christian. With all my being. My heart loves Jesus 100.
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.
Love cannot exist without truth, but truth cannot exist without love.
There's always a new experience that has to be communicated.
Let's let people heal.
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.
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.
If I want to wear a V-neck T-shirt and some jeans with a little sag - not hood sag, then I'm just being me.
I want my private life to reflect what I preach publicly.
I've worked with kids in a youth ministry in California.
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 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.
It's important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.
The kids, they want to come to spirituality. But we have to meet them where we are.
My first triumph was turning Elton John's 'Benny and the Jets' into a gospel tune.
You can't lose with truth. Truth transforms.
My main message is to preach God's word, pure and truthful. But also make it swaggalicious.
When people are taught, especially at a young age, that they're created for something bigger, that gives them hope.
It's very hard to grow up in the African American church and for music to not be in your veins. It's just part of the fabric of who we are as people, especially black musicians.
God is a God of truth, I believe that God's love is the truth.
Really, at the end of the day, if I want to keep God part of the conversation then I will do everything I can to make that happen.
What's funny is that in the '90s, growing up in the black church, everyone around you was older, so your swag became older.
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 hope in telling the truth, I can heal others.
I preach Christ, whether people want to hear that or not. I preach it in the spirit of love, you know, not in a spirit of hate, for whoever wants to listen - black, white, Jew or Gentile. They are all my brothers, you know? They are all my sisters.
I've never wanted to be a liar because truth heals me.
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.
I was adopted when I was 4. The woman who adopted me, she was 64 years old.
Since Jesus is the truth, if you follow him, you must be truthful, no matter what the personal cost.
What saved me from the hood was Christian faith motivated by music.
You could always tell intent by how people spend their money. How people spend their money is a reflection of their heart.
There's no truth without love and love can't exist without truth.
My phone bill is four thousand dollars when I'm out of the country.
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.
My point is that I am pro-life but I still believe that I do not have a right to force a woman to do anything with her body, the same way that I can't force somebody to come to Jesus Christ.
I'm not trying to be a spiritual leader to the stars. I think that title is very gross.
Hate and bigotry should not be carrying a Bible and dressing up like a so called child of God.
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.
I want young people to realize that they don't have to go to the world to find joy and peace, they can find it in the church.
That's why gospel will never be pop music - it's not something that'd be everyone's cup of tea.
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?
Music was always a part of me.
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.
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.
I think at people's core, everybody's just looking to be healed inside because we all coming with childhood trauma, especially people of color.
My mama didn't want me; my daddy wasn't there. So there were a lot of insecurities and low self-esteem.
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 I long for the parents I didn't have; that's a recurring nightmare.
People come to my concerts from all walks of life. I tried to break barriers down.
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.
I don't want to fall - I want to stay prayerful, I want God to stay pleased with my life.
If you start as a Christian artist trying to be mainstream, you're done from the beginning.
I am just always trying to pay attention to how to communicate things that may not always be the hot topic issues and ways they can be entertaining and engaging. That's what I think has always been my passion, even if it comes to the type of music that I do.
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.
Being raised in the church and being raised in hip-hop, it was just a really natural marriage.
Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It's good-news music.
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.
I think it's unfortunate that we don't go into the non-churchy places to be what I believe Jesus was.
You can't sing about Jesus too long without Him changing you.
If anyone has a problem with me, they can just take it up with God.
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