Quotes by Nigerian Authors

If we claim to know God, let’s reveal Him. If we say we are his servants, let’s carry Him
Sunday Adelaja
Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form. I am aware that, in some minds, this tends to be regarded as a delicate subject. Let me declare very simply that I do not share such a sentiment. There is nothing in the least delicate about the slaughter of innocents. We all subscribe to the lofty notions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but, for some reason, become suddenly coy and selective when it comes to defending what is obviously the most elementary of these rights, which is the right to life. One of my all-time favourite lines comes from the black American poet Langston Hughes. It reads, simply, 'There is no lavender word for lynch'.
Wole Soyinka
Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.
Sunday Adelaja
God sometimes allows problem to come into our lives to encourage us to make a step forward
Sunday Adelaja
There are benefits in confrontation. Even though we don’t like it most of the time, but people who obey this demand of life, live in peace better than the others. They avoid conflict and fights, better than others. They are able to identify their friends and enemies faster than others.
Sunday Adelaja
a burning light(light having oil) will burn to a glowing light which will grow into a shining light to become an illuminator
Ikechukwu Joseph
Deception starts from the pulpit
Sunday Adelaja
There’s no discovery without a search and there’s no rediscovery without a research. Every discovery man ever made has always been concealed. It takes searchers and researchers to unveil them, that’s what make an insightful leader.
Benjamin Suulola
God will always turn trials, national and personal into the manifestation of His glory
Sunday Adelaja
Most people write me off when they see me.They do not know my story.They say I am just an African.They judge me before they get to know me.What they do not know isThe pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.So you think I am nothing?Don’t worry about what I am now,For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.I will raise my head high wherever I goBecause of my African pride,And nobody will take that away from me.
Idowu Koyenikan
We stand the risk of regression, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
Sunday Adelaja
But despite the fact that life is full of risk, yet without taking risk, we stand a greater risk.
Sunday Adelaja
God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced
Sunday Adelaja
In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, “This is land," and point, and “This is sky," and point, but the eyes can’t discover the dividing line.
Helen Oyeyemi
On the day Princess Diana died, a group of students had gathered before a lecture, talking about what they had heard on the radio that morning, repeating “paparazzi” over and over, all sounding knowing and cocksure, until, in a lull, Okoli Okafor quietly asked, “But who exactly are the paparazzi? Are they motorcyclists?” and instantly earned himself the nickname Okoli Paparazzi
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Kingdom involves a king and his influence over a domain
Sunday Adelaja
Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The things we are been fed with on the pulpit determines how our people behave.
Sunday Adelaja
Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Nothing is free even in Freetown. You must pay a price to get a prize.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Mankind Needs To Fit Into God’s Agenda So As To Fulfill Purpose
Sunday Adelaja
Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.
Michael Bassey Johnson
In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women intheir prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medicallyparalyzed.
Oche Otorkpa
Increase calls for review, check-up,control, and analysis.
Sunday Adelaja
Knowledge comes by revelation through the study of the Scriptures
Pedro Okoro
Anytime you testify you have some amount of increase or the other, God does not want you to get satisfied
Sunday Adelaja
If God is for you, nothing can stand against you
Sunday Adelaja
If you are aware of the kind of hunger, regrets and frustrations that follows rumpy pumpy, you would stir clear from hanky panky.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Only the favor of God can help us find fulfillment as we reveal Jesus Christ to this world.
Sunday Adelaja
One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth.
Sunday Adelaja
For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary
Sunday Adelaja
Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier before it becomes too late.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The most frustrating thing about our doctrine in the modern church is that the unbelievers who have never been to church, the agnostics, those who are out rightly atheist, don’t have to fight with whether they are supposed to dominate the earth or not, they just go ahead and do it
Sunday Adelaja
When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you.
Sunday Adelaja
Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.
Sunday Adelaja
For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.
Sunday Adelaja
No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process
Fela Durotoye
Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice
Sunday Adelaja
Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.
Idowu Koyenikan
He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention
Sunday Adelaja
The happiest people on earth are not those who have robust bank accounts, or all the good things in this world; but, they are those who truly embrace the attitude of gratitude. Some of these folks are poor, but are still very grateful for the little they have; for the peace of mind they enjoy, for the love in their lives, for the unity in their family and for all the ordinary things many people take for granted. They always focused, not on the things they are aspiring for, but for all the things God has used to bless their lives.
Sesan Kareem
Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP.
Sunday Adelaja
We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.
Sunday Adelaja
Your words may be heard but your attitude will be felt. Your attitude reveals your character so never try to deceive anyone with mere words. Word/Talk is cheap but character is key. It costs nothing to be authentic. Learn to be a man or woman of substance!
Kemi Sogunle
The devil is a bad devil.
Pedro Okoro
If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe
Sunday Adelaja
To Outline Natural Limitations Of The Universe Is To Engage Mathematical Laws
Sunday Adelaja
Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
Sunday Adelaja
Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.
Sunday Adelaja
Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs.
Sunday Adelaja
If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.
Michael Bassey Johnson
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.
Sunday Adelaja