Lecrae quotes

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

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

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

We live in a cold, cold world.

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

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.

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

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

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

For me, I want to change the way people see the world. That's why I do what I do...with every email, text message, and every phone call that I get with people saying "Man what you've done God has used it to change me" that's when I see success.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Run after God. Be who you're created to be, and you'll run into the people who are doing the same thing, and those are the people that you'll want to be with.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I would say you've got to find your identity in God - in God alone - because everything else is a false sense of identity. He's the one who made you, he's your designer and your work and your value is found in him and not in anything or anyone else.

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

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.

I run in my own lanes screaming Jesus is King!

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

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

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

Live for Him and live with purpose.

I don't think the music industry has done any damage to my faith - it's probably strengthened it because it's made me see how necessary and relevant it is. I think if you don't keep your guard up, obviously there's a lot of potential for being half-hearted throughout the whole process because you can compare yourself to other people instead of the ultimate standard.

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

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?"

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

My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing.

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.

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

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

Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.

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

You plus nothing equals everything.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

People are Gods masterpieces, created for the purposes that God has already mapped out.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

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

You and I live to manifest the Glory of God.

I think everybody has a purpose. Everybody is made to be a picture of how good and glorious God is, and I think sometimes we'll get it confused and think because we mess up, we make mistakes or we have some blemishes in our record, that our purpose is somehow messed up. But actually that only serves to further paint a picture of how good God is when he uses people who are messed up just like me.

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."

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

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

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.

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

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

When you're worrying you're not praying. Stop worrying start praying.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I tried to give some warnings early on to a lot of my Christian followers that mixtape really wasn't targeted at the church so they would be able to understand. I wanted to wrestle with some things that I know people outside of the church wrestle through. When It comes to the church I just want to edify.

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

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

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

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

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

You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts.

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

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

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

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

God is never late, we're just impatient.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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."

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

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

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 waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I think as Christians, we all have the same calling, and that calling is to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul and love others as ourselves and to glorify God in everything that we do.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

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.

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.

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

Live like someone died for you.

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.

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