LeCrae Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. I'd rather die like Christ than live unholy.

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

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#13. 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.

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. We live in a cold, cold world ...

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

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

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#19. You and I live to manifest the Glory of God.

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

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

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. I run in my own lanes screaming Jesus is King!

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

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#26. 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

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#27. 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.

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

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

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#30. When I think about Christian hip hop I think of an individual who is a Christian who is using hip hop to communicate things that God will endorse.

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#31. When you care about the culture, you can stop, pause, and say, "Okay, where do I stand in the midst of this all?"

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

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

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

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

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#36. 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.

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

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#38. 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.

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

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

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#41. 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.

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#42. 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.

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#43. 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.

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#44. 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.

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#45. 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.

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

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

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#48. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#56. 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.

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#57. Magnify the father, why bother with something lesser?

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

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

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#60. 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.

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#61. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#66. 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.

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

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#68. 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.

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

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#70. 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."

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

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#72. 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.

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#73. 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.

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

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#75. There's a saying that goes around that says "I you crossover make sure you bring the cross over." That's definitely my heart and my aim. I want to remain distinct and authentically Christian in whatever realm I'm in.

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#76. God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

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

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#78. Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

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#79. 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.

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#80. 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.

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#81. 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.

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#82. Acting and theatrics are my forte.

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

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#84. 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."

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

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#86. 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.

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#87. 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.

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#88. 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.

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

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

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#91. 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."

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#92. Live for Him and live with purpose.

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#93. 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?

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

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

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

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#97. 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.

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

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

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

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