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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice
Sunday Adelaja
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
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
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
To Outline Natural Limitations Of The Universe Is To Engage Mathematical Laws
Sunday Adelaja
What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong
Sunday Adelaja
We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice
Sunday Adelaja
When you have a good heart, kindness becomes a responsibility you take up.
Ufuoma Apoki
People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don’t. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit to the speaker (which we address in chapter 5) then it will be easy for you to get the caliber of speakers you want.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
A few will say no, but many will say yes…remember that every No will get you closer to the many yeses as long as you have a system that works for you.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology.
Sunday Adelaja
I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?
Sunday Adelaja
I don't see anything other than pretensions and low mentality in women who make a man run after a hole that would soon be inhabited by termites and worms.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe.
Kemi Sogunle
When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here in Europe, America and in Africa, I sometimes feel that I am living in my own reality. Either the whole world is getting it wrong or I am just running crazy
Sunday Adelaja
I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change the culture and attitude of our people towards work
Sunday Adelaja
There is a mighty force, energy and ability inside us that has not yet been noticed by the world
Sunday Adelaja
Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations
Sunday Adelaja
There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.
Michael Bassey Johnson
An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that something is fading away, she knows that the time is ripe for marriage. She should be careful of who she takes into her life because the union is gonna be everlasting.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The thing that breaks the heart of God and makes him to cry out of frustration for his men and their whereabouts is when equity has been squeezed out of the public square
Sunday Adelaja
Men who know God and his heart, would not hide behind their pulpit when justice is been ridiculed in their society
Sunday Adelaja
Merry Heart And Joy Is To Maintain Your Well Being
Sunday Adelaja
The fact that you have a large sum of money in your wallet does not remove your responsibility from you before God to be involved in a ministry in the body of Christ
Sunday Adelaja
The work that we are doing for God should be of a higher priority than what we do for man
Sunday Adelaja
Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.
Michael Bassey Johnson