Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 37

We should teach people to value more the eternal values.
Sunday Adelaja
The kingdom values you don’t know you cannot manifest
Sunday Adelaja
To understand the value and priorities of the kingdom is to seek
Sunday Adelaja
The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work.
Sunday Adelaja
The 2 Perfect Recipes for Rearing & Raising Godly Children are: Stay On Your Knees for Direction & Stand On Your feet as an Example,
Agu Jaachynma N.E.
Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.
Tai Solarin
If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.
Teju Cole
No matter how long a shallow foundation supports a luxuriant structure, it will always collapse back to its thin rank, flouting out emotions.
Darmie O-Lujon
True emotions yearn for genre love of God
Sunday Adelaja
.Ensuring that young people get the right information that will enable them make the right choices is a responsibility all citizens must take seriously
Oche Otorkpa
When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression.
Michael Bassey Johnson
At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life.
Sunday Adelaja
Only dedication to God’s calling can make you say a firm “no” to everything that is in the way of its fulfillment.
Sunday Adelaja
We often prefer love for humans to love for God.
Sunday Adelaja
When the citizens of a nation have been made to love and adhere to values and virtues, then they make better choices.
Sunday Adelaja
Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment.
Sunday Adelaja
The journey into God’s heart will lead you into such depths of love as you have never dreamt possible
Sunday Adelaja
The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections
Fela Durotoye
The governments and their policies have failed, the church is the last hope of the common man, I value a church that is a home for all.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
No, this is pretty much the same version I read," I said, because it felt too damn late to back down. I imagine that from time to time some similar situation has led governments to declare war." pg.57
Helen Oyeyemi
People who know God truly change the life of their nation, and not the government.
Sunday Adelaja
Having been privileged to consult and speak in parliaments and to the governments of some of the leading countries in the world, it would be a waste if I don’t contribute my quota and do my best to help rescue my continent from that backwardness and darkness that Africa is largely agonizing in at present.
Sunday Adelaja
We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.
Sunday Adelaja
Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society.
Sunday Adelaja
There shall be no end to the government of God
Sunday Adelaja
To pattern government after a kingdom is not to reflect the heavenly vision of God’s kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
Haman is a symbol of a typical ungodly government representative
Sunday Adelaja
The government of any nation always represents the most corrupt part of a nation
Sunday Adelaja
God himself made government and gave it an environment of the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders
Fela Durotoye
As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.
Chinua Achebe
It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice
Fela Durotoye
You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Where your flesh is in front, your future is behind.
Paul Enenche
Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and you"ll know who a person really is.
Kemi Sogunle
Your character determines how many followers you will have.
Sunday Adelaja
The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.
Sunday Adelaja
Your words may be heard but your attitude will be felt. Your attitude reveals your character so never try to deceive anyone with mere words. Word/Talk is cheap but character is key. It costs nothing to be authentic. Learn to be a man or woman of substance!
Kemi Sogunle
Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Patience, my friend; Once again, I say, Patience. In an era 'plagued' with speed, doggedness of character and drudgery of persistence is the only guarantee to mastery.
Ufuoma Apoki
Love is not merely an attribute of God’s character but the essence of his being
Sunday Adelaja
The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.
Sunday Adelaja
The content in heavenly order will manifest only when reflected
Sunday Adelaja
Embody the character of the kingdom and it will manifest
Sunday Adelaja
You live out the character of he whom love is immersed in you
Sunday Adelaja
Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear.
Sunday Adelaja
Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.
Sunday Adelaja
What you express in your character is what your lifestyle crowns
Sunday Adelaja
A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There will be times when it seems that it would be best to just call him and see how he’s doing. Don’t deceive yourself, you don’t care about how he’s doing, you’re just craving him, don’t do it. You’ll only hurt yourself.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
As time goes by, westart to see more clearly,and are able to see thatit wasn’t all bad, and thatperhaps just perhapsthe breakup was a gift.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.
Michael Bassey Johnson
What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.
Fela Durotoye
what you do not start, you do not finish.' procrastination can be liken to a journey without destination.Now is the best time to strike
Olugbenga michael adepoju
It is dehumanizing, demeaning and humiliating when you fail or refuse to acknowledge or respond to a Good Morning greeting. #Mannerism
Adeagbo Caleb Adewumi