Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 50

The body is a dwelling of the spirit.
Sunday Adelaja
God is spirit
Sunday Adelaja
God is spirit and in order to do works on earth, He needs a man, who has a spirit and a body
Sunday Adelaja
God gives us His spirit , while we give Him our bodies by fully submitting to Him and doing His will
Sunday Adelaja
The more time you spend with the Lord, the stronger your spirit becomes. This way you get authority not just on earth but also before the Heavens
Sunday Adelaja
The principles of kingdom of God are imprinted on human spirit
Sunday Adelaja
To open door to hatred is to open one’s spirit to misery
Sunday Adelaja
To be poor in spirit is to recognize one’s need to receive help
Sunday Adelaja
To be poor in spirit is an attitude of humility that is willing to turn from personal pursuits to seek God’s righteousness
Sunday Adelaja
Religious traditions and selfish agenda are laid aside when we are poor in spirit
Sunday Adelaja
I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.
Ben Okri
The world is “sick” with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it
Sunday Adelaja
But also . . . I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with.
Helen Oyeyemi
it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An Attitude of Gratitude Delivers To You Altitude of Beatitudes.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It was your covenant with the devil to exchange your soul for money and fame, so i won't be sorry for your damn f***ing soul, and the devil gat no time to refund what you had already sell, demons don't understand the meaning of sympathy, you should know that already, so, go make some dollar bill in hell, and come back and give me some.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The only reason i love the courage of these individuals is that they take their family members as astray chicks, and the reason i don't want to belong to this category is because those chicks are far more important to me than trivial wealth and fame.
Michael Bassey Johnson
People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought—to be rude, to be inconsiderate, to be greeted rather than to greet—and because so many others like him exercised those rights, his choices were interpreted as humility.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't say, "the sky is my limit", say, "I progress ad infinitum.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Wealth can only be multiplied through work.
Sunday Adelaja
In order to get wealth, knowledge is needed.
Sunday Adelaja
You should not strive for your own personal wealth but for the prosperity of the Kingdom ofGod.
Sunday Adelaja
The most reliable method for acquiring wealth is through giving.
Sunday Adelaja
The wealth that we acquire with God’s help will not become a source of tears if it belongs to God.
Sunday Adelaja
We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake.
Sunday Adelaja
I have come to discover that the reason why they are so wealthy and prosperous is not because they were lying on the couch all day.
Sunday Adelaja
Focus means being diligent. Diligence always leads to wealth.
Sunday Adelaja
The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth.
Sunday Adelaja
The citizens of the land, the peoples of the nation must be made strong in their convictions of these values. These values and virtues must become the wealth of the people, they must become their pride. They must be reflected in their lifestyle, in their film and movie industries. This value system must be ingrained in their educational system. They must be proclaimed in their pulpits. Homes and families must be built on the wealth of these virtues.
Sunday Adelaja
The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation’s virtues, with the nation’s value system, determine the true wealth of that nation
Sunday Adelaja
Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
Material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation
Sunday Adelaja
The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources.
Sunday Adelaja
Our people must once again realize that it is only hard work and excellence that leads to wealth creation.
Sunday Adelaja
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given.
Sunday Adelaja
Work therefore is designed to release all this abundance of wealth hidden inside everything.
Sunday Adelaja
Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation.
Sunday Adelaja
Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time.
Sunday Adelaja
Time is the ultimate wealth.
Sunday Adelaja
Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources.
Sunday Adelaja
The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth.
Sunday Adelaja
We are all endowed with wealth of time equally
Sunday Adelaja
The wealth God has given to everyman is the wealth of TIME.
Sunday Adelaja
So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine Providence
Sunday Adelaja
Time is exactly the amount of wealth God gives to each and every one of us on a daily basis
Sunday Adelaja
When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands.
Idowu Koyenikan
For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues.
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. Moreover, these material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of the nation
Sunday Adelaja
If we want our nations to be truly great we must lay less emphasis on material wealth, natural resources or even human resources.
Sunday Adelaja
As a nation, develop your wealth of virtues and watch yourself live better than most countries who brag themselves in their virtues of natural wealth
Sunday Adelaja