Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 10

The level of corruption in a country is determined by the value systems of that country.
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
The day to day corruption that is carried out everywhere in the country, from the streets to the offices are as detrimental to the nation as any other form of corruption.
Sunday Adelaja
We must stop calling corruption a “Nigerian factor”.
Sunday Adelaja
The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption.
Sunday Adelaja
The gospel of miracle that we preach promotes death and encourages corruption.
Sunday Adelaja
When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.
Sunday Adelaja
She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The heartbeat of God burns with longing for the redemption of every individual
Sunday Adelaja
God desires that Christians would avoid repeating the disobedient mistakes of the Israelites.
Sunday Adelaja
A man who does not know God lives guided by the desires of his flesh.
Sunday Adelaja
When you give up your desires for the cause of making God known, revealing Him to your nation, you will surely be rewarded
Sunday Adelaja
God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced
Sunday Adelaja
Never do what the devil provokes you to do
Sunday Adelaja
An active civil position will make you become the hero of your time.
Sunday Adelaja
Judgment does not necessarily relate to the judiciary system
Sunday Adelaja
No matter how long grave acts tarry in their conceal places, light always move in on them.
Darmie O-Lujon
The time is coming when we have to stand before the Lord to give account of our works
Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes by not knowing the truth we make incorrect judgments about situations
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
Loving money is more of a problem for those who do not have it.
Sunday Adelaja
Loving God and your neighbor cannot exist without the other
Sunday Adelaja
Loving God is an act
Sunday Adelaja
Jesus knew that all the commandments of the law of Moses rested on loving God and loving your neighbor
Sunday Adelaja
In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression
Fela Durotoye
Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Strange things are happening to us.’‘To our children.’‘They sayhe is looking for the spirit of Independence.’‘They say he is looking for himself.’‘For his ownspirit.’‘Which he lost when the white man came.
Ben Okri
With so much "Moos" from the herd, how you gon' get heard?
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power
Fela Durotoye
If your prospect like your product, they'll tell 10 people. If they don't, they'll tell 1,000.
Timi Nadela
Tweet and post softly of your brand. But carry a big stick.
Timi Nadela
We have more ways to get our news than ever, which is supposed to be a good thing, because more competition is supposed to challenge you to do better. However, in this social media age, what is has done is allowed the information business to be a free- rein free-for-all. Old rules of journalistic integrity have been thrown out the window. Everyone has been given the conch, and no one knows what to do with it. Instead of using the new-media landscape to spur us to higher quality, we have instead become sloppier than ever: Tweet first, research later. Post first, rescind later. Guess first, confirm later.
Luvvie Ajayi
We are not the ones who will achieve success and put this world to shame, but God will do this
Sunday Adelaja
Giving is a quality of God Himself
Sunday Adelaja
Love without sharing is torture. Love without giving is death.
Sunday Adelaja
Giving tithes alone is not enough for financial prosperity.
Sunday Adelaja
You cannot receive until you learn to release.
Kemi Sogunle
You can NEVER be poor by giving and showing love to others.
Kemi Sogunle
If the enemy attacks, it is because God is giving you much more
Sunday Adelaja
Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted
Sunday Adelaja
Virtues are worth more than the material things.
Sunday Adelaja
I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. What I never knew, though, was that I was actually stronger than I thought I was.
Ufuoma Apoki
Toss me like a dough and watch me RISE!
Chinonye J. Chidolue
The time of the third millennium is the time when the people of God will walk, covered byGod’s glory, performing great wonders and miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception
Sunday Adelaja
The mentality of seeking miracles from one place to another is destructive to the economy
Sunday Adelaja
Stop looking for miracles through mystic way
Sunday Adelaja
Hospitals are better and more reliable than miracle crusades.
Sunday Adelaja
When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them shallow men.
Sunday Adelaja
When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them helpless.
Sunday Adelaja
When you begin to run after miracles you dehumanize yourself.
Sunday Adelaja
When you begin to run after miracles you reduce yourself.
Sunday Adelaja
Miracles should run after you and not you running after miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
You should not reduce yourself to any that runs after miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
Jesus expect miracles to run after you, He does not expect you to run after miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted.
Sunday Adelaja
Once people get to the promise land, they have to perform miracles by themselves.
Sunday Adelaja
Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.
Sunday Adelaja
When you begin to run after miracles, Jesus feels insulted.
Sunday Adelaja