DeVon Franklin Quotes

No matter what you watch, it has an impact. So, why not use this medium to bring great stories to millions of people around the world with the goal of not only entertaining them but inspiring them. That's what motivates me. That's why I get up every day.

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

What if you are just one bend in the road away from achieving your God-ordained purpose? If you give up on your faith now, could you live with knowing that your chance of a lifetime was only one act of faith away?

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

If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith won't fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith,

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.

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

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.

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,

Making sure that each of us ends up with the people we are meant to be with is important to the Lord, so He takes His time making sure that the circumstances are right.

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

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

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

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

Home is about the person more than the place. Our marriage is our home, and it fills us back up when the world drains us.

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.

Trust the gifts that God has placed within you.

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

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.

The path to success requires you to commit.

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

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.

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.

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.