Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 26

God is not interested in your art, but your heart.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The moment you learn to separate your wants from your needs, your vision becomes clearer.
Kemi Sogunle
Vision is a strong tool for increase
Sunday Adelaja
Touch your vision daily.
Sunday Adelaja
A documented vision will help you every day to take certain steps toward its fulfillment.
Sunday Adelaja
Next step: take the veil off
Sunday Adelaja
The best method of sharing your vision is your personal example
Sunday Adelaja
If you serve people, they will gladly serve your vision.
Sunday Adelaja
Vision is the secret behind a life of passion, it motivates people to go through life with force
George Ifeanyi
You need vision to transform political arena
Sunday Adelaja
It is lack of vision and passion on the part of his redeemed children that keeps the nations bound in darkness
Sunday Adelaja
With every new encounter with God your vision becomes clearer and sharper
Sunday Adelaja
Your vision becomes broader when you encounter God daily
Sunday Adelaja
Increase in vision comes with wisdom to reap the harvest
Sunday Adelaja
The vision of your tomorrow that you have today strengthens you for the morrow
Sunday Adelaja
A clear vision makes the soul merry
Sunday Adelaja
There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled
Sunday Adelaja
A lot of visions remain visions and never come to realization
Sunday Adelaja
Nurture the vision God has put in you
Sunday Adelaja
Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think.
Michael Bassey Johnson
To Declare Your Stand For Righteousness Is Not To Regard The Perception Of Others
Sunday Adelaja
With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening to a person and what others think is happening.
Helen Oyeyemi
If a person does not satisfy the need to self-actualization, his satisfaction and anxiety increases
Sunday Adelaja
Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God's programming.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You should not fast just to get the anointing. That won’t be very effective. Fasting is rather a means of abasing yourselves for the service of God and man.
Pastor Adelaja Sunday
Your success in life is determined by the extent to which you can humble yourself to serve others
Sunday Adelaja
Serving others is a high honour in the spiritual realm
Sunday Adelaja
Do not seek popularity or self-affirmation; just show people God’s love and mercy, and help them to prosper and succeed. Simply serve God
Pastor Adelaja Sunday
The proof of true love for God is in service to others.
Sunday Adelaja
Since when has irresponsibility and lack of accountability in public service become a Nigerian factor?
Sunday Adelaja
The Protestants of old go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is service to God and man. Not the interest to gain profit or make money.
Sunday Adelaja
The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation.
Sunday Adelaja
That amount of time is to be converted into some products, benefits, goods, services, welfare, ministry, but most of us actually truncate this amount of wealth on daily basis.
Sunday Adelaja
Work is a form of service to God.
Sunday Adelaja
Try this: Be What or Who You feel/think is missing from your 'world'. Then You wouldn't have to exhaust You in searching for something or someone. You'd be so indulged in finding You inside You and be so fulfilled in being You to You and everyone else. The catch: What is missing from You is definitely missing from many outside You
Ufuoma Apoki
Service is more important than self-gain.
Sunday Adelaja
God created you to be useful for a mighty purpose. He wants you to be the light and the salt of the world. It is in your DNA to be a champion, a winner, a conqueror and a light-bearer. You were born to rule, to soar high like the eagle and be energetic like a young lion. He has deposited you on earth to be a solution, a problem solver and a service provider.
Sesan Kareem
When love speaks it is about “us” or “we”…when ego speaks it is about “I” or “me
Kemi Sogunle
The greatest enemy of any person is his own ego.
Sunday Adelaja
Right from the beginning, we were born into a world where the ego rules, but when we came to God and received the new birth, we entered a world where love rules
Sunday Adelaja
Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.
Sunday Adelaja
Whoever ego motivates becomes an idol worshipper
Sunday Adelaja
The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
You make the decision to love everyday, whether you feel the magic or not. It's the decision that creates perseverance, not the feeling of love in itself, because sometimes, butterflies do not suffice
Ufuoma Apoki
Without delayed gratification,there is no perseverance.
Sunday Adelaja
It is perseverance that leads to great accomplishments.
Sunday Adelaja
The gospel of the kingdom talks about perseverance.
Sunday Adelaja
smiling a smile full of things restrained
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And then, that feeling comes again when you seem invincible and totally awesome. You simply can't hold it in and you just smile to everyone you come across; infectiously, they have no choice but to smile back. You are more than convinced in your guts that something beautifully indescribable is coming your way. You just drown yourself in the feeling of awesomeness. Faith, probably . . . or the hands of providence?
Ufuoma Apoki
The Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine.
Ogwo David Emenike
The Nuru men, and their women, had done what they did for more than torture and shame. They wanted to create Ewu children. Such children are not the children of forbidden love between a Nuru and an Okeke, nor are they Noahs, Okekes born without color. The Ewu are children of violence.An Okeke woman will never kill a child kindled inside of her. She would go against even her husband to keep a child in her womb alive. However, custom dictates that the child is the child of her father. These Nuru had planted poison. An Okeke woman who gave birth to an Ewu child was bound to the Nuru through her child.
Nnedi Okorafor
Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.
Nnedi Okorafor
We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values
Fela Durotoye
The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values.
Sunday Adelaja
The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals
Sunday Adelaja
People in every nation behave and respond according to the values and virtues upon which they were raised. We all are a product of our environment.
Sunday Adelaja
All forms of destructions all around us. Destruction in values, destruction in people, destruction in faith, destruction in elders, destruction in the pulpit, destruction in the youth, destruction in government, destruction in society etc.
Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation.
Sunday Adelaja
Let’s downplay the teachings on miracles and teach the values of hard work and diligence.
Sunday Adelaja
Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen.
Sunday Adelaja