Quotes from Lecrae

Christians need to embrace that there need to be believers talking about love and social issues and all other aspects of life.

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

No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

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.

God just has his own agenda, and he does what he wants to do with stuff.

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

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.'

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.

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.

Faith is not about serving some tyrant in the sky that says, 'You need to get your act together.' Faith is about having a loving father who says, 'Hey, listen... I'm here with you. I'm going to hold your hand. Just rock with me.'

I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person.

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 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.

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

When I hung out with my Uncle Chris, things got real. He was fun, talkative, and loud. He was the life of the party and a magnet for mischief. Since he saw the world through a gangsta's lens, he wanted me to become tough and aggressive.

It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups.

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.

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

Christians have no idea how to deal with art.

Moving forward, hopefully the platform my career has given me will allow me to continue to be a voice in culture, whether that's doing lectures on campus or writing books or whatever that looks like. I feel like that's really the lane that I uniquely connect with.

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.

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.

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.