Top 299 Quotes & Sayings by Lecrae - Page 2

The pain and the suffering that I went through made me an activist. It made me stronger; it made me more compassionate.

It is possible to call God 'Lord,' to feel emotionally connected to faith, to do the altruistic things and still not want God.

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life.

History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard.

My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak.

Jesus ain't American, you know what I mean? And there is gonna be more people in Heaven who don't speak English and are not white when we get there.

As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves.

In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning.

College allows you to make better decisions, better friends, and a better future. There's only one catch: when the opportunity comes, you actually have to take it.

People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does.

People have got to form some kind of unified fronts where you know who your allies are, you know who your friends are, and really begin to work together to create different kinds of infrastructures to protect one another and to help one another thrive.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

I'm all about authenticity.

Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me.

I just don't want to be the artist who's out on the road and has no real perspective of what's happening at home.

I know where my bills get paid from, and that's God!

To realize that I had been living a lie, to realize that I was unsatisfied and I would never be satisfied until I came to Jesus was so revolutionary to me that I wanted everyone to taste it. I wanted everyone to see how awesome God was.

Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude.

If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all. When I think about that, my mind is blown.

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.

For a lot of people, groups, Christians included, issues are homogenized. And so to be a Christian, I'm either this staunch, conservative Republican, or I'm this tree-hugging liberal. You're stereotyped. It's almost assumed that people know what your issues are going to be.

I don't like putting on airs; that's not my thing. I'd rather just be myself, just connecting to people genuinely.

My mother, my relatives, and closest friends have risked their lives in the area of law enforcement and corrections, so I never have and never will say, 'I hate police.'

Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm.

Growing up in inner-city neighborhoods, there's a particular structure, which I'm sure is true of most social contexts. The type of person you are determines the role you play.

When God's hand is on you, there's nothing anybody can do to stop that.

My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' like, 'Read these books.' And it was like, man, I'm learning stuff that I just can't get anywhere else.

Hip-hop is substance. It's social. It's science - that's what it started off as. We have fun, and we still having fun; ain't nothing wrong with fun, but we need that social, we need that substance, we need that science, and we need that spiritual.

I spent some time in Cairo, and you see these Coptic Christians and Muslims holding hands. They got a rich history together of working together and cohabitating. You couldn't pay to see that in America.

I love Lauryn Hill when she first came out with her solo project because it felt like she just knew what she was doing.

My stepdad didn't have a father growing up, so he didn't know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense relationship in which he never really offered me advice.

For me, 2016-17 was hell, and there's no way around it for me. I went through pain, depression, fear, doubt, and all of that was a journey that I was able to write through, and then I wrote when I was coming out of that dark place as well.

I would say before I dedicated my life to living for God, I was really your average thrill seeker.

A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

Many people don't know that all Grammy awards are not created equal. An unspoken hierarchy exists in many circles, and some categories are more respected than others.

I don't feel any sense of prioritizing white evangelicalism.

I'm not afraid of people; I'm afraid of not doing what God created me to do.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Live like someone died for you.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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