Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 5

A complex world of intrigues and power play among couples hascombined to deny young people the love and attention they trulydeserve, more and more teenagers are leaving home to peer up withbad influence which eventually lands them in jail for the lucky onesand six feet under for the not so lucky.
Oche Otorkpa
You must know what God is expecting from you in the ministry that He has entrusted to you
Sunday Adelaja
Buffoons may have serious faces behind their mask!
Nelson Jack
No matter the sphere of life your portion is, you can be successful in it together with the Lord, if you have learned to recognize His time.
Sunday Adelaja
Only the one who invests in people can be prosperous and successful.
Sunday Adelaja
We as pastors, as God’s ministers, must have right priorities. Only then we will become successful in ministry.
Sunday Adelaja
You cannot become successful all by yourself.
Sunday Adelaja
You will only find everything necessary for a happy and successful life in the Promised Land of your calling.
Sunday Adelaja
Life gives everybody equal chance to become successful and prosperous.
Sunday Adelaja
I had thought that successful people, wealthy people, prosperous people, don’t stretch themselves and they don’t live a life of pressure. Well I was wrong.
Sunday Adelaja
A country where God is not honored cannot be truly successful
Sunday Adelaja
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.
Wole Soyinka
God gives abilities, talents and gifts to help you get established in your territory.
Sunday Adelaja
The gifts of God that are hidden within us are designed not only for our own needs but also forthe needs of others.
Sunday Adelaja
God has hidden in each and every one of us so many abilities, gifts and resources that could only be activated by work.
Sunday Adelaja
God has given us all different abilities and gifts, so that through them we can bring God’s love and His presence into the land where we are called
Sunday Adelaja
Yes, it is totally acceptable that for any given country to become assured of its safety, it has to get out of its way to make the world safer generally. But getting out of its way does not necessarily have to mean getting into another country’s backyard. Rather, it should mean getting into a more sensible and a more effective coalition with other countries for same purpose in a manner that ensures both mutual safety and mutual dignity –both coming in adequate measures, the achieving of one not necessitating the foregoing of the other.
Ray Anyasi
The burden of keeping the world, every corner of it, safe is one that has to be evenly shared...This is especially more so for the interconnectivity of the global system in our generation.
Ray Anyasi
Yes, they have all done some good work that has left our world a safer place today. But we need a more direct strategy that can endure for as long as the threat persists without hurting the sovereignty of nations and human rights of the same people it seeks to protect.
Ray Anyasi
This level of operational and organisational perfection for a body that has a scourge as unpredictable as terrorism to deal with is nearly utopian, but it is what GATA must strive to reach, a pursuit that must be written in its DNA.
Ray Anyasi
The multifaceted nature of the strong points of the enemy in this brutal warfare calls for nothing less than a global scale collaborative response that is stubbornly radical, yet humanely civil.
Ray Anyasi
GATA must be willing to bind where terrorist organisations loose and loose where terrorist organisations bind. Anywhere there is an internal conflict, especially if there is a terrorist organisation which stands to benefit from the escalation of such conflict; GATA must come around to encourage a sustainable resolution.
Ray Anyasi
You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?
Chinelo Okparanta
As long as ordinary citizens are as corrupt as the politicians in their daily lifestyle, the country will continue to suffer.
Sunday Adelaja
Your lifestyle is fulfilling a prophesy
Sunday Adelaja
Your lifestyle should contrast your obedience
Sunday Adelaja
To reflect God’s image is a lifestyle
Sunday Adelaja
Take responsibility to compel your nation to adopt kingdom lifestyle
Sunday Adelaja
Great evidence manifests in your kingdom lifestyle
Sunday Adelaja
I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. But I didn't know I was stronger than I thought.
Ufuoma Apoki
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
Chinua Achebe
You cannot break any of God`s laws, you can only break yourself.
Sunday Adelaja
One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis
Sunday Adelaja
Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase
Sunday Adelaja
To find yourself in a land that seems ungodly is to seek God for the mantle to extend kingdom principles there
Sunday Adelaja
Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised
Sunday Adelaja
Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance.
Sunday Adelaja
Just as God expressed his great love by giving his son to die for our redemption, so we will express our love for God by giving to others
Sunday Adelaja
The source of man is in man,and when a man dies,millions of men die in him.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened up to reveal two brawlers being separated and pulled away from their fight. What I saw next gave me a fright: in the farther distance, beyond the listless crowd, the body of a lynched man dangling from a tree. The body was slender, dressed from head to toe in black, reflecting no light. It soon resolved itself, however, into a less ominous thing: dark canvas sheeting on a construction scaffold, twirling in the wind.
Teju Cole
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.
Teju Cole
To Operate In Misery Is To Disregard The Original Intention Of God
Sunday Adelaja
You can spend all your life looking for things. The truth is that those things will elude you. Change your approach. Begin to seek God and you will see things running after you.
Theophilus Ajadi
You need the Spirit of the Lord to come mightily upon you. When He is in charge, your troubles are in trouble.
Theophilus Ajadi
a burning light(light having oil) will burn to a glowing light which will grow into a shining light to become an illuminator
Ikechukwu Joseph
Unless you are led and directed by the Holy Spirit, you will never be truely successful in your ministry.
Sunday Adelaja
The main duty of ministers is to be obedient to God, following the Holy Spirit to obey everything that He instructs them to do.
Sunday Adelaja
Christianity through the operation of the Holy Spirit affirms unity as well as variety (diversity) in the Body of Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
The one surefire key to victory as a Christian in this fallen world is to be filled with the Holy Spirit—that is, to be completely submitted to and empowered by him.
Pedro Okoro
Our success depends on the Holy Spirit, who lives and acts through us.
Sunday Adelaja
Soon," he said in his letter. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the weight of something real.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
God is waiting for you to bear fruits
Sunday Adelaja
It’s mostly during times of wilderness experience, that people are willing to accept the lessonsthat wisdom teaches
Sunday Adelaja
Lessons are learned through making mistakes, falling and rising.
Sunday Adelaja
There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle.
Idowu Koyenikan
Our actions has ensured that we made headlines for all the wrong reasons
Oche Otorkpa
If we don’t confront those things that are wrong, it gets worse.
Sunday Adelaja
To find solace in the wrong area as it seems to be at first is to seek God for direction
Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing wrong with the harvest
Sunday Adelaja
To understand the principle of love is to eradicate wrong acts
Sunday Adelaja