Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 4

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.
Idowu Koyenikan
You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.
Sunday Adelaja
Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders
Sunday Adelaja
The Infinity sign goes round and round without an end, and true love bears the same pattern.
Michael Bassey Johnson
No matter how hard we try to separate, and if eventually we finally separate, we are just fooling around thinking we had parted, yet our hearts dwells where we cowardly believed we had left.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled
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
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
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
But just as quantity wins respect and honour for a church, it is quality that provides a church with safety and protection.
Sunday Adelaja
Money does not go only to those who go to church, it goes to those who know and comply with the laws of money
Sunday Adelaja
A clarion call to the 7000 remnants who are yet to bow their knees to Baal, to arise and come out of the wilderness to take charge of the guard that would lead their Nations and church to the promise land
Sunday Adelaja
Cooperate expression of your church life means a lot
Sunday Adelaja
The church must integrate into the environment
Sunday Adelaja
Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier before it becomes too late.
Michael Bassey Johnson
More so God didn’t choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son
Sunday Adelaja
The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction. The earth is man’s domain. Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here.
Sunday Adelaja
The most frustrating thing about our doctrine in the modern church is that the unbelievers who have never been to church, the agnostics, those who are out rightly atheist, don’t have to fight with whether they are supposed to dominate the earth or not, they just go ahead and do it
Sunday Adelaja
The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence.
Sunday Adelaja
God has chosen to make the heavens his jurisdiction while at the same time he himself makes it very clear that the earth has been given to man as man’s sphere of influence.
Sunday Adelaja
The mandate of the church is to promote kingdom expansion throughout the earth
Sunday Adelaja
When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you.
Sunday Adelaja
Live to avoid all the numerous field mines of life.
Sunday Adelaja
Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.
Sunday Adelaja
For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.
Sunday Adelaja
To violate the law of love is to live in un-forgiveness
Sunday Adelaja
I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message
Sunday Adelaja
No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process
Fela Durotoye
Any fool that had once helped you will someday make known to everyone that you were once a needy. No matter how broke you are, don't ever be quick to ask for help, let it be voluntary, and you must also learn to feign repudiation, no matter how valuable the offer.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.
Sunday Adelaja
If you can dedicate yourself to asking questions to reveal your potential, you will discover your potentials and start to fulfil your mission
Sunday Adelaja
Discover your gift if you don’t want to live the life of an ordinary person
Sunday Adelaja
Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice
Sunday Adelaja
Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Opportunity is being in God's place, at God's time, following God's instructions, to obtain God's results.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.
Idowu Koyenikan
Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want.
Ufuoma Apoki
Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own land of promise
Sunday Adelaja
If you don’t want to live in self-deceit in a new year, miracle must not be your focus
Sunday Adelaja
Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.
Idowu Koyenikan
Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We don’t have to like each other. We just need to respect each other.
Izey Victoria Odiase
Liking me is optional. . .Respecting me is not!
Izey Victoria Odiase
One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is thelarge scale availability of half truth’s and manipulated facts
Oche Otorkpa
More and more number of youths and adults get addicted to nicotine on daily basis.
Sunday Adelaja
The domain of God is primarily heaven. That is where he has limited himself to.
Sunday Adelaja
This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing
Sunday Adelaja
He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention
Sunday Adelaja
Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.
Ogwo David Emenike
Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The absence of conditions for self-realization in a country, region and community leads to stagnation, social and economic crisis
Sunday Adelaja
A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence
Sunday Adelaja
It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.
Idowu Koyenikan
The happiest people on earth are not those who have robust bank accounts, or all the good things in this world; but, they are those who truly embrace the attitude of gratitude. Some of these folks are poor, but are still very grateful for the little they have; for the peace of mind they enjoy, for the love in their lives, for the unity in their family and for all the ordinary things many people take for granted. They always focused, not on the things they are aspiring for, but for all the things God has used to bless their lives.
Sesan Kareem
Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. There are people who are unhappy about your success and your big dreams are just too heavy for them to bear, so they will try to break you into pieces. Extinguishers of dreams are everywhere, and you can decode them by their nosy attitude towards your affairs. That is why its pertinent to keep few friends, talk less about yourself, and focus on other things pretending as if you don't exist. It doesn't make you faded or out of life, but the chances of getting your prospects destroyed will be very slim.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.
Michael Bassey Johnson