Quotes from Lecrae

Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.

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.

Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.

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

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

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

Old habits die hard, and if you're not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you're trying to become.

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

Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem with, it's his people.' And that was my struggle: it's God's people. I felt disenfranchisement. I felt so much abuse from organized religion because I'm walking in a direction that a lot of them couldn't fathom and can't understand.

Being an outspoken Christian in the music industry means always feeling out of place. It's like whatever you have accomplished is less credible because of your faith.

I thought that God and rap would never work. I thought that God wasn't okay with rap. People knew I used to rap, and I went to the Bible studies. Someone said, 'Hey, you should rap about Jesus.'

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

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.

Whether you think you're jacked up or not, we're all broken people, and until we can admit that, we're not going to progress.

I'm digesting C.S. Lewis and Tim Keller and so on and so forth, Francis Schaeffer. I'm seeing how they've affected culture and politics and science and so on and so forth, with implicit faith versus explicit faith.

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

I'm all about authenticity.

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

My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

America has this fascination with glorifying the villain and not talking about the trials and tribulations. We tell the story of the successful villain a lot of times, but we don't tell the story of the people who don't come out so successful, and we don't tell the story of all the bystanders of that choice.

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

My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

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

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.