Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 36

The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Dry your tears, woman, the boy will be found. Nobody can do him anything…” Gradually, the tears began to dry from Etusi’s eyes, thanks to Okokpujie’s words, a mighty force that swung the entire village to action. Pg.38
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed.
Sunday Adelaja
Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. She doesn't want sympathy, because that type of attention is not her goal. She'd rather you see the woman who smiles in the face of adversity, than be the one who begs you to see her frown.
Alfa H
Let us crush these so-called biological clocks that give us nothing but fear, and encourage us to make stupid decisions. Let us crush these biological clocks that hurt us and rob us of the fabulous lives that Jesus died to give us. These clocks that not only hurt us, but hurt many generations after us.It is time. We need you.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
In some cases we neglect our health, because we were never told about its value.
Sunday Adelaja
To establish principles of her kingdom is to function In Optimal Health
Sunday Adelaja
An affected health has come in contact with worry
Sunday Adelaja
To obey the principles of kingdom is to enjoy full and whole health
Sunday Adelaja
And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The lack of stringent laws and the inefficient prosecution ofperpetrators have made it increasingly difficult for victims and theirfamilies to get the justice they deserve.
Oche Otorkpa
Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right. If we don’t fight lawlessness, it prevails. If we don’t establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country. God says there is no man when there is nobody who stands for the truth.
Sunday Adelaja
Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right.
Sunday Adelaja
I therefore submit to you that what qualifies a person to be called a man according to God, is the ability of the individual to live by the right standard and values that heaven values. Standards like, justice, judgement, truth and equity.
Sunday Adelaja
Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting
Sunday Adelaja
If he is a God of justice, people must see his justice on earth
Sunday Adelaja
Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you take a decision, make plans, strategize, to begin to proclaim and establish justice in your world.
Sunday Adelaja
To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.
Nnedi Okorafor
Be a solution provider and not a part of the problem to be solved
Fela Durotoye
We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Salvation is the most important thing that a person has and the devil knows very well what its value is.
Sunday Adelaja
The value of a person’s life may not be determined on the basis of his material standing.
Sunday Adelaja
Most of the deaths before seventy years old in our world, could actually be prevented if the various individuals had only treated their lives with more caution and sense of value.
Sunday Adelaja
The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value.
Sunday Adelaja
That lack of value sense would deprive a person from a protective instinct.
Sunday Adelaja
The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value
Sunday Adelaja
Girls dropping out of school because of early and unwanted pregnancies. The reason? They did not realize the value they possess in their body.
Sunday Adelaja
If you give a five thousand dollar diamond ring to a two year old child, sooner or later, that child is going to lose the treasure. Even though you could have meant well, yet the child would misplace the diamond. It is obvious because that child doesn't know the value of a diamond ring.
Sunday Adelaja
Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess.
Sunday Adelaja
A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.
Idowu Koyenikan
God wants to make us understand and draw our attention to how important it is to learn to value one another
Sunday Adelaja
The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life.
Sunday Adelaja
From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.
Sunday Adelaja
Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP.
Sunday Adelaja
When we possess something without knowing its value, we abuse it.
Sunday Adelaja
Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value.
Sunday Adelaja
Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life
Sunday Adelaja
There is simply nothing of comparable value to life.
Sunday Adelaja
When we don’t see the value of a thing, we don’t put the protective edge.
Sunday Adelaja
When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing – abuse!
Sunday Adelaja
Our people must be taught to desist from accepting bribes. The ability to say NO, must become a core value of our nation
Sunday Adelaja
It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.
Sunday Adelaja
To possess something and not know its value is torturous
Sunday Adelaja
Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life.
Sunday Adelaja
If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy.
Sunday Adelaja
If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late.
Sunday Adelaja
If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car.
Sunday Adelaja
If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics.
Sunday Adelaja
The value of time is only equal to the value of life.
Sunday Adelaja
If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry.
Sunday Adelaja
If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication.
Sunday Adelaja
It is only when the proper value system is well embraced by the populace that a country begins to produce God fearing leaders that are free from the mentality of eating from the national cake.
Sunday Adelaja
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
Sunday Adelaja
The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media.
Sunday Adelaja
If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.
Sunday Adelaja
Never under-estimate the value of an idea
Chinonye J. Chidolue
If a man realizes who he is, he is aware of his value
Sunday Adelaja
For every principle there is a value
Sunday Adelaja