LeCrae Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I study the bible regularly, meet with older wiser mentors weekly, and keep a group of guys in my life who challenge me spiritually. That keeps me moving.

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

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

The bible says it's by grace that you're saved it's not by dressing up that you're saved. So I just wanted people to know it's not about putting on airs, it's about being honest and transparent and saying "God here's my junk, can you help me?"

My mission is to change the way people see the world. Everybody has a perspective or a lens they see things through, and hopefully I can adjust that lens or change that lens so that they see things from a different perspective, a different lens.

If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel like, if you don't do this, you're not going to be accepted and God doesn't look at that.

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

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

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

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

We all need grace in the face of each other.

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

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

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.

You plus nothing equals everything.

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

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

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

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

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

Good people don’t go to Heaven, forgiven people do.

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.

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

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.

Hip hop, this is church. Church, this is hip-hop. Y'all need to meet. I know you have some misconceptions about them, I know you have some misconceptions about them. Let's work through this because there's a lot of false perspective.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The whole time we're traveling the world. You really mature. You're not just learning truth. The truth is changing you and maturing you.

I've made so many crazy mistakes and done so many terrible things, I don't know. I'd just say I'm grateful for every mistake and every disappoint that I've had to experience - that I'm still loved and still cared for, that God's still here for me.

The Bible says, "Take heed, lest you fall," but this has really been the story of my life. I've traveled into other realms in order to be a light and be a missionary. Some of them were very dangerous, and I don't look at this as any different.

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

God is never late, we're just impatient.

If you just want a comfortable life, the awards, and pats on the back then you play Christian Hip Hop safe. Because playing it safe will give you consistency, but if you're really in this to see peoples lives transform then you're gonna have to do some risk assessment - it is costly to rally try to impact people.

I think Hip Hop and Gospel are such strong distinct cultures that have problems, unspoken problems obviously, but problems with one another. On the hip hop side, it's the problems of "awe man I don't like the suits and ties," and on the Gospel side it's " awe man they need to pull their pants up." I just think those are minor, really small issues that we just need to get over and learn to help each other. We're all on the same , and in the same boat.

There's not too many artist that can handle what we would call an Christian R&B sound. It's kind of a limited field as far as singers go. Just hoping that more artist like that can resonate and grow.In terms of female rappers, man hey come on! We're here...come talk to us!

Men, specifically in the West, have no rights of passage, no way to know when they become a man. Everywhere else in the world you gotta kill a lion or stab a shark, or go on some journey, and you come back and you're a man. But here in the West, we're really kind of clueless as to what makes us a man.

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

I know specifically me being somebody who has had most of my experiences within the black church, that's cultural... you gotta put on your church clothes when you got to church...and it's nothing wrong with that - that's absolutely fine! But I think what's happening to a new generation ,the hip hop generation, there's astigmatism, a feeling that I'm unwelcome.

God says, "there's nothing you can do to be accepted, trust me and and let me change you." And at the end of the day, acceptance isn't about what I do, or what I don't do. Acceptance is about me trusting God to take me exactly as I am and take me to something different. And I think that's what we should have for people.