LeCrae Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

The real test of our character is when the bottom falls out.

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."

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.

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.

There's a lot of wounded people out there who don't believe that there's any way they'll ever be healed from those wounds.

I'd rather die like Christ than live unholy.

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.

You and I live to manifest the Glory of God.

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

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

Today's circumstances are out of your control but you CAN control your response. Don't let a negative outlook kill your joy today.

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

We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.

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

The worlds smallest package is a person wrapped up in themselves.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

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

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

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

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

If you live for people's acceptance you will die from their rejection

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

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.

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

When you're reminded that God owes you nothing you find yourself more grateful and less entitled.

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."

You plus nothing equals everything.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.

There would be some times where people wouldn't know how to act around me. Does he drink? Can I cuss? What can I do? And then there was other circumstances where it was, I just don't respect what you're trying to do.

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

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

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

The thing about wounded people is wounded people are scared that those wounds are going to end up killing them. They pretend like they're not there, or they ignore them.

A man who is too afraid to admit his fears is a man who won't overcome them.

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

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

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

You're trying to figure out who you are when you're younger. However, once you've found yourself, you run your race, and you run in your own lane.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

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

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

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

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

Trials show us where we are and where we need to grow. Dont run from them, grow from them.

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

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

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

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

When people let youd own, God will pick you up.

Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.

Magnify the father, why bother with something lesser?

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.

We live in a cold, cold world ...

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.

Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent
and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is
Divine

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

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.

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.

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

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

The problem is always sin, and the answer is always the Gospel.

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.

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.

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.

You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

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

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

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

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

God is never late, we're just impatient.