lecrae quotes:

A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.

Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned for but now has to adapt to. Its Neo in The Matrix.

Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages, all ethnicities, all social classes, they're all there enjoying the game. Hip-hop has been one of the only forms of music that has provided that kind of atmosphere.

Acting and theatrics are my forte.

I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.

I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things through rhyme or hip hop was great for me.

God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.

A great storm puts out a little fire but feeds a strong one. Trials conquer weak faith but grow a strong faith.

Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.<3

It's easier to be hedonistic and just chase after whatever appeals to your senses. That's the life of an animal, you just do. It's more difficult to stand by your convictions and have people berate you on both sides and feel like there's no home for you.

Live for Him and live with purpose.

Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstandin g you.

If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My mission is not to give an apologetic for why I'm trying to impact people's lives and use the Gospel to transform. My mission is to impact people's lives and use the Gospel to transform. I want to be on that mission and not explaining it all the time.

I think we all have room to grow. I think every Christian really does need to take up their cross in a lot of areas of life and say, "Man, listen, regardless of what kind of backlash I'm going to get, I need to stand for what I believe in."

If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.

We fear circumstances so much because we fear God so little.

Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.

God is never late, we're just impatient.

For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the semantics of naming things to give them some kind of distinction but I think my faith is pretty distinct. If you want to call it hip hop, essentially it is. That's the art form.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, "Yeah, it happened."

A lot of people just love music, especially a lot of aspiring artists. They just want to jump in and start making music. They don't really take time to grow and appreciate the craft.

A lot of time, the music reflects reality, which reflects music.

A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.

Ain't a soul on the planet that's better than another.

All men are created to lead, but we need somebody to lead us.

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

As a revolutionary, I don't just want to sit by and say, "Oh this feels good, let's just do it." I'm going to die for what I believe in and stand for it.

As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.

Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.

Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with.

Being humbled is always good for us, even if it doesn't feel good to us.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

But I'm here to serve people. I'm not here to wave my finger in people's faces and point out to them how terrible they are or what I hate about them or anything along those lines. That's not my place. I'm in no position to condemn anybody.

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

Don't follow your feeling. Just follow the word.

Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will be changed.

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

Everybody can relate to being an outsider, having to deal with that, and having to wrestle with how people view them.

Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she came in late, woke me up with a game to play. Did a few things that it's hard to say. Told me to keep that secret safe. I'm trying to act like it ain't real. Had my innocence just stripped from me, and I still don't know how to feel.

For me, my faith dictates everything I do, so no matter what I'm saying in my art, my faith is the driver for that. That's what I'd encourage people to understand as they listen to my music. It's distinct. My worldview bleeds through my music.

Forgiving the people that hurt us most allows us to heal from the wounds they left.

Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you.

God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.

Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

I consider what I do soul music, it's music that is concerned with the soul.

I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.

I don't exist to build a genre. I exist to build the Kingdom.

I don't need DRUGS, I got the Most HIGH.

I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me.

I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man.

I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.

I had a dream that I was captain of fate. I lost control and then I sank.

I like to be in the zone. I like being in the studio with the artists, with the producers, with the musicians, feeling it, and going there. I feel like I have a lot of content to start writing about.

I like to have people around and an environment with constant feedback on what I'm doing.

I like to use my voice as an instrument and just play along with the music. That's really how I tend to my voice. The content usually comes after or during that process of just trying to be an instrument.

I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy.

I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church.

I think it's okay to ask questions. I don't think everything is answerable though.

I think success is being exactly who God called us to be and fighting to your death to live that out.

I think the artist has an ability to draw pictures for people to where they can process these messages that otherwise they wouldn't be open to hearing.

I think we should appreciate ethnicity and diversity, and appreciate the uniqueness of all people, but I don't think we should be ethnocentric. These things are not ultimate.

I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.

I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.

I want to be able to get my point across. I respect people expressing their freedoms and their liberties and their rights, but at the same time I'm almost mindful that my freedoms can be other people's downfalls. I don't want to flash my freedoms in your face all the time, especially if they're going to be detrimental. I can get you to understand my point without going overboard, and we're cool.

Iâ??m not a Christian because Iâ??m strong and have it all together. Iâ??m a Christian because Iâ??m weak and admit I need a Savior.

I'd rather die like Christ than live unholy.

If God has called you to something, He will equip you to be what He has called you to be. If He has called you to be a responsible, faithful, diligent leader, as a man, He will equip you to do that.

If I'm learning something, that's all I want to talk about.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

If we can't come together, and have conversations and understand our biases and understand that hate, none of us are really the good guys here.

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.

If you really wanna be a rebel, read your bible.

I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time, I'm stoic.

I'm out to take the Bible, create disciples who make disciples, disciple cycles...

I'm saying let's demonstrate what Jesus had done in us so the world may see a new way, God's way, Jesus' way the picture of redemption that Jesus has done in us. So Jesus redeems us and we desire to go to the world and demonstrate that so that others can see what redemption looks like.

In heaven I'll be shocked by those who aren't there, those I didn't think would be there but are. And the fact I'm there at all.

In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need that. I think most revolutions are started by people in their teens and twenties.

It's depressing a little when you don't see outside the tour bus and underground in a stadium. If you go outside near the venue there are lots of fans everywhere so you can't just have a minute to enjoy the sunshine alone and think.

It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.

I've always been a missionary and what people don't know is that I've always taken some strategic and eyebrow-raising steps.

I've always been the type of person - you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I'm not, like, oh, let me get one tattoo. It's, like, my old whole arm has to be covered.

I've always done music to push people to get them to get uncomfortable in their seat so they could wrestle with things. Not to become pew potatoes, just simply sitting there, growing fat with knowledge and not applying it.

Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control

Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you're rolling with.

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

Like a hero in a dream, Christ came and He rescued me.

Live like someone died for you.

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

Make the most of your life instead of comparing it to everyone else's.

Man what's the point of living if I'm living for myself Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

My perspective has blossomed. There's always more to learn and more challenges.

My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.

Peace doesn't mean you won't have problems. It's means problems won't have you.

Prayer doesn't bend God's arm but it's guaranteed to bend our hearts toward His will. Worry less. Pray more.

Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell...

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.

Some people are scared to tell the truth, but I'm going to tell you the Good, the bad, the ugly," it's like, "Let's go there. Let's talk about it."

Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.

The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.

The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.