Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 146

If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan and vision of how to affect the economy of the nation, rather than simply fixing your own individual economic problem.
Sunday Adelaja
If you are frustrated with the elite of your society, do something about it.
Sunday Adelaja
When everybody contributes a change to what he or she notices, it is then we will change our world.
Sunday Adelaja
Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.
Sunday Adelaja
Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.
Sunday Adelaja
Every effort to impact someone or a generation will go a long way beyond human imaginations.
Sunday Adelaja
Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation.
Sunday Adelaja
The oppressor will always despise their victims.
Sunday Adelaja
It is the people that are angry at the status quo that makes a decision to bring change.
Sunday Adelaja
It is the people who are displeased with injustice that can be a channel for social justice.
Sunday Adelaja
It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.
Sunday Adelaja
At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.
Sunday Adelaja
Greed is an excessive desire for something more than one’s proper share.
Sunday Adelaja
As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.
Sunday Adelaja
If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.
Sunday Adelaja
Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.
Sunday Adelaja
To be compassionate, you have to forget your own comfort zone and live well because you live beyond yourself.
Sunday Adelaja
What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be a signpost to your purpose in life.
Sunday Adelaja
Just as you are what you think, you are also what you dream.
Sunday Adelaja
To be under a physical bondage or a mental bondage is one of the worst situations someone could ever be in life.
Sunday Adelaja
When someone finds his or her mind is not free or in mental bondage, such a person might as well not be free physically.
Sunday Adelaja
If a person is not free, his right is restricted.
Sunday Adelaja
Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom.
Sunday Adelaja
The truth is that if you do not join the way of godliness, then you do not have any reason to complain when the ungodly are busy planning and making the pathway of ungodliness.
Sunday Adelaja
If the weeds are removed and there is nothing planted, it is the weeds that will keep growing.
Sunday Adelaja
Planting of godliness must be a continuous thing, however, one needs to start the planting of godliness from the home front.
Sunday Adelaja
When every opportunity given to you is used to serve the people, you are on the path of life’s purpose to the fullness.
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t underestimate the result of a right and positive anger.
Sunday Adelaja
Serving others is one of the bases for you to have or to enjoy a fullness of purpose in life.
Sunday Adelaja
To serve others is not only by hands but by mouth as well.
Sunday Adelaja
Your voice can be made loud to speak against ungodliness and injustice and not promote it.
Sunday Adelaja
If you have experienced injustice and insulted by the ungodliness, then you are a candidate to stand against the same.
Sunday Adelaja
If you are ready to make a difference and shine, then you must be ready to pay the price by laboring rightly with your mouth and with hands.
Sunday Adelaja
The great and the mighty that use their assets and power to subjugate people are demonstrating oppression.
Sunday Adelaja
Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.
Sunday Adelaja
When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.
Sunday Adelaja
The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.
Sunday Adelaja
If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice.
Sunday Adelaja
When justice is prioritized by any leader at any level then to give justice to the citizenry will always be at the back of the mind of such a leader.
Sunday Adelaja
The absence of justice anywhere is the presence of injustice everywhere.
Sunday Adelaja
A leader must be taught or made to know the importance of justice for the people.
Sunday Adelaja
If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens.
Sunday Adelaja
The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.
Sunday Adelaja
Everyone who fights always fight with a purpose in mind.
Sunday Adelaja
The light of the Kingdom of God remains the strongest weapon for you to fight with in order to have a continuous victory over the enemies.
Sunday Adelaja
You must be determined to overcome the insults of the ungodliness of this world with the weapon of the light inside of you.
Sunday Adelaja
A steward in the above scripture is a servant who serves.
Sunday Adelaja
Wherever you are, be ready to create the enabling spiritual atmosphere for the sake of the kingdom of God.
Sunday Adelaja
The kingdom of God is depending on you to make the atmosphere more conducive for the purpose of prospering the Kingdom of God.
Sunday Adelaja
There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.
Sunday Adelaja
There is no one or group of people that would ever be free from bondage without making room for a change.
Sunday Adelaja
There is no one or a group that would ever be able to achieve or accomplish anything unique except that they are angry with their situation.
Sunday Adelaja
A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.
Sunday Adelaja
The individuals that will stand or speak or act for the sake of the society must be the kind of people that do not accept limitation.
Sunday Adelaja
A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one’s life is a good thing to do.
Sunday Adelaja
Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.
Sunday Adelaja
One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.
Sunday Adelaja
There is a price for everything in life. Even what you receive freely has already been paid for by someone.
Sunday Adelaja
If you are really angry, then you must be willing to pay the price of being alone or be remanded for someone else to have their freedom, illumination and justice.
Sunday Adelaja
Ungodliness is confronting the society and everyone seems to be at its mercy because of greed for pleasure.
Sunday Adelaja