Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 147

Do not waste your anger, you may just be the candidate to deliver a people from oppression or injustice.
Sunday Adelaja
You and I are to be a true member of the provoked generation.
Sunday Adelaja
If there is a construction or a pathway in the spirit to be made, it is the way of godliness.
Sunday Adelaja
Your gifts, talents, and calling will help you to know what you must do.
Sunday Adelaja
It is your gifting and talents that dictates to you what to do.
Sunday Adelaja
Where the spirit of godliness is, where there are godly principles in action, where there is justice and peace, there will surely be prosperity.
Sunday Adelaja
The group of people that are insulting the society with ungodliness are those that are out rightly known with ungodliness and those that try to mimic godliness.
Sunday Adelaja
The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it.
Sunday Adelaja
It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.
Sunday Adelaja
Godliness is not just a doctrine, a belief or a principle, it has a personality.
Sunday Adelaja
To embrace the spirit of godliness is to embrace everything godliness stands for.
Sunday Adelaja
Godliness has already come in human flesh to rescue humanity from its own ungodliness.
Sunday Adelaja
The teaching of godliness must be preached and taught in every available medium.
Sunday Adelaja
Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness.
Sunday Adelaja
A fruit that comes forth is the desire and joy for the labour of a farmer.
Sunday Adelaja
When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.
Sunday Adelaja
Your anger against every form of insult and oppression must be out of love.
Sunday Adelaja
When you are pushed to the wall, you will act and do things you have never done before.
Sunday Adelaja
You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.
Sunday Adelaja
Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.
Sunday Adelaja
Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.
Sunday Adelaja
Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.
Sunday Adelaja
The only thing that is limiting me and you from attaining anything in life is what we know or what we don’t know.
Sunday Adelaja
The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time. The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products.
Sunday Adelaja
You must know what to do with your time if you must become great in this life. You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.
Sunday Adelaja
Most people do not invest their time because they do not see need to do that.
Sunday Adelaja
You must choose what you do with your time. You must not just do things because everybody is doing them.
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t live your life not knowing what to do with your time.
Sunday Adelaja
It is rather your limitation that decides to what extent of greatness and to what height you are going to arise in this life. Your level of promotion in life is determined by how much you know.
Sunday Adelaja
Self-discovery is the key to knowing what to do with your life.
Sunday Adelaja
The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.
Sunday Adelaja
To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.
Sunday Adelaja
Our world is structured in such a way for you not to even know and for you not to even be told and for you not to even think about it that your life is disappearing gradually and that you are left only with very little life and time.
Sunday Adelaja
The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly.
Sunday Adelaja
It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming the world without an understanding of what to do with their time.
Sunday Adelaja
If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.
Sunday Adelaja
The secret of all greatness is knowing what to do with time.
Sunday Adelaja
The world gives a way to the man who knows where he is going.
Sunday Adelaja
Most people have not become better than they were five years ago because people hardly invest time into improving their knowledge, skills, and talents.
Sunday Adelaja
You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that chosen field of influence.
Sunday Adelaja
Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so many years without self-improvement
Sunday Adelaja
Most people on the face of the earth do not know what to do with their time.
Sunday Adelaja
The majority of people on earth are ignorant of what their time should be used for.
Sunday Adelaja
The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is their understanding of what to do with time.
Sunday Adelaja
The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.
Sunday Adelaja
You must know what you do with your time if you must become great in this life.
Sunday Adelaja
Every one of us must learn how to make our time productive.
Sunday Adelaja
The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time.
Sunday Adelaja
This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.
Sunday Adelaja
There's no short-cut in life but with right knowledge, you can fast-track things to come to pass.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.
Ogwo David Emenike
We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.
Michael Bassey Johnson
No one cultivates in a stony-ground, instead he cultivates in a soft-rich ground. Do not expect people to invest in you if you're a lazy type.
Godspower Oparaugo
The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome.
Adebowale Ojowuro
As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.
Teju Cole
He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous violence had eaten into every political idea, had taken over the ideas themselves, and for so many, all that mattered was the willingness to do something. Action led to action, free of any moorings, and the way to be someone, the way to catch the attention of the young and recruit them to one's cause, was to be enraged. It seemed as if the only way this lure of violence could be avoided was by having no causes, by being magnificiently isolated from loyalties. But was that not an ethical lapse graver than rage itself?
Teju Cole
No matter how an individual views Satan, whether they believe that he is a real character or that he is just the product of literary scholars and imaginations, no one can deny that each one of us has an aspect of the devil within us. By studying the character and nature of Satan, we learn about ourselves; and the more we know about ourselves, the better we can fight our own personal demons—metaphorical or otherwise—in order to create a better tomorrow
Nwaocha Ogechukwu
Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.
Chinua Achebe
Being poor in the Spirit means you are humble, gentle, meek, God-fearing,kind and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit but being Spiritually poor is lacking in every thing that pertains to life and godliness.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu