Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 79

People who spend their lives like to go to parties and cinemas, sit at home and watch movies, TV Series, TV dramas, etc.They think this is life. But it is spending life not living life.
Sunday Adelaja
Your responsibility is your accurate response to the ability within you, when you respond less accurately than the ability you have it becomes irresponsibility.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
All the breakthroughs and miracles you need are in people
Sunday Adelaja
Find as much information about your subject as you can
Sunday Adelaja
Even in extreme conditions, we should not act according to the flesh, for it lusts against the spirit
Sunday Adelaja
If you don’t have your own identity, you will adopt the brand of another
Sunday Adelaja
Hope of God is fulfilled when the kingdom of God extends to all the earth
Sunday Adelaja
God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
Prayer without an active position is powerless to change anything
Sunday Adelaja
I was telling them about back home and how all the boys were chasing me because I was half-caste, and they said I was dissing myself. So now I say biracial, and I'm supposed to be offended when somebody says half-caste. I've met a lot of people here with white mothers and they are so full of issues, eh. I didn't know I was even supposed to have issues until I came to America . Honestly, if anybody wants to raise bi-racial kids, do it in Nigeria
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being
Sunday Adelaja
God calls each person individually. He said that a man and his wife were one flesh, but not one spirit
Sunday Adelaja
For a nation to be corruption free, that culture must first be created through the proclamation and propaganda of a correspondent value system.
Sunday Adelaja
You must stop living under the pressure of the environment and surrounding and culture and tradition.
Sunday Adelaja
God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God’s righteousness
Sunday Adelaja
There is no serving God without serving man
Sunday Adelaja
Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively
Sunday Adelaja
In the end, only you can care about you.
Justice Mark Tsaro Igbara
To be devoid of life is to lack spiritual dimension that brings heaven to earth
Sunday Adelaja
For you to be great, you must make sure that every second of your life counts.
Sunday Adelaja
It is important to abide in the word of God, pray ceaselessly, and fast regularly
Sunday Adelaja
People who give the best are those who give of themselves – your time, talents, words, knowledge.
Omoakhuana Anthonia
Our thoughts create our lifestyle, if you live healthy, it means you think healthy thoughts and if you think unhealthy thoughts, it will reflect in your health and lifestyle too.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Greed makes one want to get blessings without qualifying for it
Sunday Adelaja
Every fragment of time that passes daily must be converted for it to be fully effective
Sunday Adelaja
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Godwin Elendu Ph.D
There are things that life demands of every person living on the surface of the earth.
Sunday Adelaja
We can only change life in the country and radically reform society by having God’s wisdom, strength and authority
Sunday Adelaja
Our prayer should address our Father with the complete understanding of God’s fatherhood
Sunday Adelaja
God has no regard for the ignorant.
Sunday Adelaja
Productivity is the essence of life
Sunday Adelaja
I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.
Uwem Akpan
Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Today every believer has the potential to become a savior and a deliverer in his own area of specialization if only he/she make himself available
Sunday Adelaja
Everything in existence evolves from time
Sunday Adelaja
It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.
Sunday Adelaja
Teach her about difference. Make difference ordinary. Make difference normal. Teach her not to attach value to difference. And the reason for this is not to be fair or to be nice but merely to be human and practical. Because difference is the reality of our world. And by teaching her about difference, you are equipping her to survive in a diverse world. She must know and understand that people walk different paths in the world and that as long as those paths do no harm to others, they are valid paths that she must respect. Teach her that we do not know – we cannot know – everything about life. Both religion and science have spaces for the things we do not know, and it is enough to make peace with that. Teach her never to universalise her own standards or experiences. Teach her that her standards are for her alone, and not for other people. This is the only necessary form of humility: the realisation that difference is normal.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It is impossible to do anything of significance in this world if you are not ready to enjoy success
Sunday Adelaja
Throw away the doctrine of waiting for confirmation
Sunday Adelaja
You leaders, where do you lead your people to? Do you sow in them the seed of possession?
Sunday Adelaja
We have to be active if we want to see revival and the glory of God in our country
Sunday Adelaja
Everybody want to experience some form of pleasure in whatever they are doing and one of the sure ways of doing that is by seeing increase in your endeavors or results
Sunday Adelaja
The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so they tried to do their best and give the best quality to God by giving the best quality to man.
Sunday Adelaja
There are things you need to know that you already know.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We call ourselves Protestants, but we have totally departed from the teachings of the early Protestants. Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Calvin would turn in their graves, if they hear the kind of teachings we are now feeding the people of God with.
Sunday Adelaja
First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately... and no one will forget.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
I've come to think that there's an age beyond which it is impossible to lift a child from the pervading marinade of an original country, pat them down with a paper napkin and then deep-fry them in another country, another language like hot oil scalding the first language away.
Helen Oyeyemi
Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom
Sunday Adelaja
At the end of the day, it’s your life. If you turn out good, the world celebrates you and with you (not minding how you achieved it). If bad, they abandon you (even if they gave you the advice that led you to doom). Just be you and follow your heart.
Omoakhuana Anthonia
No man was born empty, every man was born with a worth.
Sunday Adelaja
After spending all of his resources to create all of us, not just one or two people, but in millions and billions and yet, God cannot find a man who will stand for him
Sunday Adelaja
Our values are as a result of the information you respond to on regular basis.
Sunday Adelaja
The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Most of the time, yesterday’s level of increase will not be enough to secure tomorrow"s increase
Sunday Adelaja
You are not in the kingdom by accident
Sunday Adelaja
Money should not be taken above time
Sunday Adelaja
Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God
Sunday Adelaja
You will find solution, if you have a passionate, strong desire to breakthrough
Sunday Adelaja
We only serve God when we serve people
Sunday Adelaja
Only fools lay claims where lovers thread for when such love is renewed, lovers dance upon their heads.
Chinonye J. Chidolue