A biography for Kirk Franklinhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't want to fall - I want to stay prayerful, I want God to stay pleased with my life.”
“I can go to a movie theater and sit there all day. I love movies. They intrigue my brain and they relax me. I am a movie buff.”
“You can't lose with truth. Truth transforms.”
“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.”
“When you look at the decline of church attendance in America, or when you look at the decline of millennials that are not going to church in America, you want to have the conversation that a lot of times people are hit more with religion and rules and the systems than they are with the love of God and having a personal relationship with Christ.”
“I'm an advocate for therapy.”
“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.”
“Love cannot exist without truth, but truth cannot exist without love.”
“There's nothing as a Christian black man that I fear that the average white male wouldn't.”
“I think that sometimes we have compromised quality content for the fear of Christianity, and I think that they both can co-exist.”
“People are hungry for something to remind them that life is bigger than the hell they're going through.”
“What saved me from the hood was Christian faith motivated by music.”
“My goal is to try to lead people to the manufacturer of their souls.”
“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 want my private life to reflect what I preach publicly.”
“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.”
“It is horrible that we have made it where the Bible is a homophobic manual. That's not what the Bible is.”
“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.”
“The kids, they want to come to spirituality. But we have to meet them where we are.”
“My main message is to preach God's word, pure and truthful. But also make it swaggalicious.”