Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 12

Stop living in the illusion that some ones anointing will help you rip from where you have not sown
Sunday Adelaja
It is pointless to try to make an illusion real
Sunday Adelaja
In God’s third day we should reveal God to the world around us.
Sunday Adelaja
Every man, who desires to become a true father, has to look continually to the Lord, that he might learn of Him how to relate to his own children
Sunday Adelaja
Jesus Christ is the way of gaining a father, the path of a pure and righteous life without fornication, lust or adultery
Sunday Adelaja
To Be Raised Without An Earthly Father Is Never An Excuse Not To Discover Purpose
Sunday Adelaja
Your lifestyle shows who your father is
Sunday Adelaja
Don't give people the chance to possess you with their negativity; their gibberish can look so charming, but it can't make you a better person.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You have to become a ladder that other people climb up in their path to success. If you are not ready for that, then you are not ready to be a pastor.
Pastor Adelaja Sunday
A good shepherd has a positive influence on his people through "inward work", i.e. working on them from the inside.
Pastor Adelaja Sunday
A real pastor — a good shepherd — is always concerned about the personal development of every individual person in his church.
Pastor Adelaja Sunday
A good shepherd encourages and inspires each one that works alongside him.
Pastor Adelaja Sunday
We should not leave our "house of bread", because it is our assurance of eternity.
Sunday Adelaja
Anyone who takes the risk of leaving God for a while, risks his life in eternity.
Sunday Adelaja
Aside from infrequent comments ("Cheer up, love," or "It's not Hallo'ween"), no one wondered why a teenager was dressed up as a chic governess. Sylvie approved of Miri, even at the same time as she was confused by her. "It's a style at least," she said, and took off her rope of pearls and looped them around Miri's neck.
Helen Oyeyemi
Confront somebody with an issue before it becomes a conflict. Confrontation is not all bad.
Sunday Adelaja
When you confront, you are trying to avoid a conflict.
Sunday Adelaja
Winners don’t think defeat. They think victory.
Benjamin Suulola
God’s reaction towards things is different from ours and He wishes that our reaction will line up with His
Sunday Adelaja
HIV is free, why pay for it
Oche Otorkpa
The stigmatization and the excruciating pains of social alienationhave compelled most victims to conceal their status while themalevolent ones continue to distribute the virus free of charge tounsuspecting men and women
Oche Otorkpa
It is not money that makes a person free, but it is the knowledge of God’s truths.
Sunday Adelaja
Down play religion, get yourself free from religion.
Sunday Adelaja
Loving God and people sets us free from the it’s all about me syndrome
Sunday Adelaja
If the holy spirit is in you, you are free, even if you are in a physical jail
Sunday Adelaja
Christians need to be free in standing for their rights
Sunday Adelaja
In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound dies out, the White Witch wakes. It was like, I want to touch you, and I can touch you, now what next, a dagger?
Helen Oyeyemi
I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.
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
The Media and the internet have taken up the responsibility of molding the young ones amongst us, leaving us to pursuethe careers we treasure.
Oche Otorkpa
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
Media must not be allowed to carry only bad news
Sunday Adelaja
Gospel (good news) must be represented through the media
Sunday Adelaja
We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions “helping my child to gain admission.
Sunday Adelaja
Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Principles and their consequences are always constant.
Sunday Adelaja
Your life is a result of life`s principles that you either observed or violated.
Sunday Adelaja
If we want to abide and move in the Kingdom of God, we have to become obedient to theprinciples of the Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
Only God’s principles and not fame and money can make a person truly free.
Sunday Adelaja
The principles of the Kingdom of God make it possible to live life at its highest level.
Sunday Adelaja
Life will treat you according to how you observe its rules and principles.
Sunday Adelaja
Your success is determined by the principles upon which you live your life.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
When you rely on the principles of truth, they take you far.
Sunday Adelaja
To be given to the study of the scriptures is to discover more principles
Sunday Adelaja
To be a first partaker is to understand the principles needed
Sunday Adelaja
It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles
Sunday Adelaja
It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.
Sunday Adelaja
The gospel of the kingdom talks about principles of the kingdom.
Sunday Adelaja
We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles
Sunday Adelaja
297. We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles
Sunday Adelaja
The principles you pursue becomes a worth when it reflects
Sunday Adelaja
By Trial And Error Divine Principles That Govern Our Behavior Has Been Discovered
Sunday Adelaja
Personal commitment to the principles of the kingdom must take pre-eminence
Sunday Adelaja
He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?That long?
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
quality input determines a quality output and feedback.
Ikechukwu Joseph
Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions.
Michael Bassey Johnson
As a matter of fact, people erroneously think that life is about spending.
Sunday Adelaja
Insanity is when you keep doing something that does not work
Sunday Adelaja
Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.
Helen Oyeyemi