Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 27

Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation.
Sunday Adelaja
To understand the principle of love is to eradicate wrong acts
Sunday Adelaja
A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person’s imagination.
Sunday Adelaja
Our service as believers is in our help and attitude towards others
Sunday Adelaja
Getting employment is equivalent to cutting your life into pieces bit by bit
Sunday Adelaja
Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made.
Sunday Adelaja
In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered in the chest - without asking to be paid.
Chinua Achebe
Once you have produced your best self, then you will be able to produce new seeds and fruits after your kind.
Sunday Adelaja
The love of God is not conditional, it does not depend on anything and it never ends.
Sunday Adelaja
The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious
Ikechukwu Joseph
For things to change in our national life we must address the problems from the very root of it.
Sunday Adelaja
God created people free, but in order to receive true freedom we have to obey God’s rules
Sunday Adelaja
Your passion is that part of the earth where God has placed you
Sunday Adelaja
Action is the ink that writes what you think on the pages of life!
Constance Chuks Friday
If I see darkness in the Church I bring light to it.
Sunday Adelaja
Listen, dis foreign TV channels dey spoil de image of our country. Dese white stations dey make billions of dollars to sell your war and blood to de world… We no bad like dis. OK, why dem no dey show corpses of deir white people during crisis for TV? Abi, people no dey kill for America or Europe?”“You dey speak grammar!” someone shouted. “Wetin concern us wid America and Europe? Abeg, give us cable TV.”“Remove dis toilet pictures!” said another.“So our barracks be toilet now?” the police answered. "What an insult!“ "You na mad mad police,” Monica said.“Ok, cable TV no be for free anymore!” the police said.“But it’s our pictures we are watching on cable TV,” Madam Aniema said. “Why should we pay you to see ourselves and our people?”The police answered, “Because government dey complain say cable TV dey misrepresent dis religious crisis.
Uwem Akpan
Each of us can improve our internal person and develop the character required for a successful life
Sunday Adelaja
No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
All things are possible not only to God but also to the man who truly and firmly believes in Him
Sunday Adelaja
To know what to do with time is to convert a day
Sunday Adelaja
Your calling and destiny is where your pain and joy meet
Sunday Adelaja
Understanding of divine truths preserves and protects a man in any situation.
Sunday Adelaja
Success is a process of learning, growth, progression and faithfulness.
Sunday Adelaja
It is foolish to reply on people who can betray and fail you in time of trouble. Only God is our reliable help and protection
Sunday Adelaja
The devil is the god of this planet and he does anything he wants to the people therein
Sunday Adelaja
We have something very valuable, for which we have not yet found an application in this life
Sunday Adelaja
The Protestants taught their followers that faith is needed for hard work because every hardship on its own discourages, hence you need faith not to be discouraged. The faith you have, keeps you going and makes you to pass through the valley and the mountain top.
Sunday Adelaja
Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world
Sunday Adelaja
You will definitely reap whatever you have sown
Sunday Adelaja
Stopping, sitting down and finding time for reflection are considered to be the most essential action related to fulfilling a human’s destination
Sunday Adelaja
the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but makes us partners of consent. Yes, we are compelled to make peace, we submit to force majeure, but leave us at least a piece of clothing to cover our nudity. This is the motivation behind every formula of diplomatic contrivance that is sometimes described as face-saving, and wise indeed is the victor who knows that, in order to shield his own rear from the elements, he must not denude his opponents.
Wole Soyinka
The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity
Sunday Adelaja
When we’ve been travelling around I’ve often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after I’ve seen everything I’ve decided that home, wherever that may be, is the place for feelings of peace. And if I can be at peace with myself then that is the most important thing. I think travelling teaches one that.
Ben Okri
Our worship as believers cannot be accepted we honor others
Sunday Adelaja
The largest uniqueness of yours is where you are special and differ from others
Sunday Adelaja
Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life
Sunday Adelaja
Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Everything is good when it is on time.
Sunday Adelaja
Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.
Michael Bassey Johnson
People should always find support and understanding in you. Then they will support you 100%.
Sunday Adelaja
We define masculinity in very narrow way. Masculinity is hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak-- a hard man.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To seek first the kingdom of God is not to forfeit divine direction
Sunday Adelaja
Poverty is possible in every society because someone refused to speak out.
Sunday Adelaja
it is not what happens to you, it is what happens in you.
Sesan Kareem
Whether you studied sexology or not, nobody will teach you how to screw, nobody will point to your vagina and say, hey that's where you pee and bonk! And nobody will say, hey, your penis can ejaculate when you stroke or slide it into a woman's punani!
Michael Bassey Johnson
God has created the world to be run by His principles.
Sunday Adelaja
If a man realizes who he is, he is confident of his strength
Sunday Adelaja
We often prefer love for humans to love for God.
Sunday Adelaja
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase
Sunday Adelaja
Convert every passing time into products.
Sunday Adelaja
Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Always ask yourself if you are really serving God
Sunday Adelaja
If you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor to you.
Sunday Adelaja
Every man has a need to be great at something
Sunday Adelaja
When you invest your time you will notice that you are being fruitful and that you are multiplying your life.
Sunday Adelaja
Values come to you by what you hear.
Sunday Adelaja
She seems to always get itTo have become adept at empathyAlways giving excuses for people who’ve aggrieved herTo the point it’s hard for her to hit back when necessary All because she assumes she ‘understands’Then, one day . . .She finally stands up for herselfAt that moment, she revels in the natural instinct of self-preservationShe realises all this while the power she’s been withholdingIn a transcendent moment of epiphanyIt’s all beautiful ‘causeNow, she can get back to empathy with understanding, rather, than without.
Ufuoma Apoki
God wants to make us understand and draw our attention to how important it is to learn to value one another
Sunday Adelaja
You must always overcome your comfort zone
Sunday Adelaja
A man who is depleted by worry is he who natural immunity is reduced
Sunday Adelaja