Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 15

Take responsibility for the disenfranchised people
Sunday Adelaja
You can’t make a difference if you are not trained in the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
If you don’t take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts of your city, they will come knocking on your door one day with revenge and bitterness
Sunday Adelaja
When you invest your life, you reproduce your life.
Sunday Adelaja
God is a God of purpose. He doesn't wake-up and start dabbling into things; He doesn't practice trial and error. His ways are sure, they may be low but they are always sure.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Principles can actually grow and overwhelm the things you are afraid of.
Sunday Adelaja
To be filled with fear is to open to the wrong way
Sunday Adelaja
If the devil is sending you thoughts of fear, resist him, stop the thoughts
Sunday Adelaja
Do not be afraid of living without family- be afraid of living an empty and meaningless life
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Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t be too scared to calculate risks
Sunday Adelaja
It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Lucy happily settled down to work. First she sent for papyrus and handmade a book leaf by leaf, binding the leaves together between board covers. Then she filled each page from memory, drew English roses budding and Chinese roses in full bloom, peppercorn-pink Bourbon roses climbing walls and silvery musk roses drowsing in flowerbeds. She took every rose she'd ever seen, made them as lifelike as she could (where she shaded each petal the rough paper turned silken), and in these lasting forms she offered them to Safiye.
Helen Oyeyemi
Employment is the greatest dream killer
Sunday Adelaja
Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions
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To maximize time is to make sure that every second, minute and hour counts
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Time spent effectively can be compensated
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What you do with your time on a daily basis determines what values will be added to your life
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The product you produced is the evidence of the value in your life
Sunday Adelaja
Monitor and control every passing day so as to live without regrets
Sunday Adelaja
Once you are saved, you have to locate your own territory
Sunday Adelaja
Do not do anything local as believers. Whatever you do should be magnified to be comprehensive
Sunday Adelaja
Time is God’s gift to us as humans
Sunday Adelaja
A life without concrete product is a meaningless one
Sunday Adelaja
Your life would never have a meaning if you don’t have a goal or purpose
Sunday Adelaja
The best way to worship God is to honor His people
Sunday Adelaja
There is no worship for God without the honor of fellow man
Sunday Adelaja
The worship of God should be done without expecting anything in return
Sunday Adelaja
Our service as believers is in our help and attitude towards others
Sunday Adelaja
Employment is a vicious cycle
Sunday Adelaja
We get distracted through employment and rarely have time to discover our true selves
Sunday Adelaja
God uses His people as instruments for breakthrough
Sunday Adelaja
You only get fulfillment when you work in your land of promise
Sunday Adelaja
Stop wasting your life and discover who you are
Sunday Adelaja
Our attitude to others dictates God’s attitude to us
Sunday Adelaja
Appreciate others so that you can be appreciated
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The only need of God is in people
Sunday Adelaja
Until you believe in yourself, it does not matter how much you believe in God
Sunday Adelaja
Always put your heart into and show commitment in whatever you do
Sunday Adelaja
Be strategic and purposeful in whatever you do
Sunday Adelaja
The world is sitting on a gold mine but knows it not.
Sunday Adelaja
Everything that you have was bought by the currency of time.
Sunday Adelaja
Anything anybody has was purchased with the currency of time.
Sunday Adelaja
It is no use setting priorities if you won’t stick to them.
Sunday Adelaja
Finish the most important tasks and stop wasting time on irrelevant activities.
Sunday Adelaja
Those who waste time eventually become wasted
Sunday Adelaja
Employment is the greatest dream killer
Sunday Adelaja
Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions
Sunday Adelaja
Never let a day be your control factor
Sunday Adelaja
To maximize time is to make sure that every second, minute and hour counts
Sunday Adelaja
Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively
Sunday Adelaja
Time wasted can never be compensated
Sunday Adelaja
Channel your energy into your God-given purpose. Being out of a job gives you all the time you need to grow
Sunday Adelaja
Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive
Sunday Adelaja
We have to consciously monitor and maximize our time effectively and efficiently
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t let your society and environment dictate what you do with your time
Sunday Adelaja
We were created to purposefully live a life that glorifies God
Sunday Adelaja
Once you are saved, you have to locate your own territory
Sunday Adelaja
Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members
Sunday Adelaja
Do not do anything local as believers. Whatever you do should be magnified to be comprehensive
Sunday Adelaja