DeVon Franklin Quotes

The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny.

When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

Anything you pray for, you need to prepare for.

Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

Anything you don't water, anything you don't take care of in your life, is going to die.

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

The path to success requires you to commit.

If your faith won't fit in the door that opens, then I argue do not walk through that door.

Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

I feel like you only need one moment of inspiration to turn your life around.

So my hope and prayer is that people will be impacted by the realization that miracles are everywhere and that God uses them to communicate to us that we're not alone, and that we do have help.

Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.

Trust the gifts that God has placed within you.

Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for?

Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a sudden get miraculously healed, that doesn't mean the miraculous isn't all around you.

Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.

Keeping your family together is an extraordinary feat - especially in the face of great conflict.

I'm connected to religion and that's how I access God. I'm in a relationship with God that can sometimes be informed by religion, but not dependent on religion.

My definition of God: God is not only the alpha, the omega, he is friend, he's a confidant, he is a buddy. He is a lover of my soul. That's my definition of God.

I can look at something that others (might not) and I can see the value in it. I can make that film a film that everybody wants to see.

Waking up in the morning, you didn't have to even think, you did it. Being able to get to work, didn't even have to think, you did it. That's miraculous.

Someone says, 'oh, you know what? I'm going to give you a shot to see what you can do', and you've been praying for a promotion, now someone gives you an opportunity, that's a miracle.

You know, I think people underestimate how miraculous getting a movie made is.

I try to use all aspects of media and my gifting and calling to help as many people as I can.

You're pulling out and someone says, 'hey, you know what, go ahead and take my spot', miracle.

I've dreamed about producing since I was a kid.

Yeah, I look at the box office as an indication as how many lives that you've touched, so my hope is touch as many lives as possible.