Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 6

For a man to subdue a man is to defile God’s purpose
Sunday Adelaja
A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding
Sunday Adelaja
Delayed gratification is what makes a man.
Sunday Adelaja
Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs.
Sunday Adelaja
Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance
Michael Bassey Johnson
If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly. I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want to go, you can, but don't come back again to this house. Comfort was beautiful, but her stealing attributes brought reproach on her and painted her beauty with dark impressions. I looked at her, walking barefooted on the muddy ground congested with rain water.
Michael Bassey Johnson
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.
Sunday Adelaja
What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong
Sunday Adelaja
Pray not only for your disciples but for all who believes in you
Sunday Adelaja
Your victory depends on how much you believe in God’s power
Sunday Adelaja
English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.
Chigozie Obioma
Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.
Michael Bassey Johnson
From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort.
Sunday Adelaja
We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Fruitfulness is impossible without action.
Sunday Adelaja
There is no reward for wishes.
Chinedum Azuh
Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions
Sunday Adelaja
Understanding of divine truths preserves and protects a man in any situation.
Sunday Adelaja
It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer
Sunday Adelaja
False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations.
Sunday Adelaja
We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.
Sunday Adelaja
Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work
Sunday Adelaja
When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
Sunday Adelaja
If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.
Michael Bassey Johnson
To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The more you try, so desperately, to prove a point to get someone's approval, the more fleeting that approval might be, causing a chain of depreciation of self-esteem. Sometimes, all you need do is truly love yourself and get only the approval and acceptance of the inner self.
Ufuoma Apoki
With every calling comes the anointing you need to be able to stand firm in the situations that you will have to face
Sunday Adelaja
You’re actually fulfilling your calling by going to work and giving your best.
Sunday Adelaja
The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling
Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling when I seek to uphold righteousness in all spheres of life
Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice
Sunday Adelaja
No one can fulfill the calling to extend the reign of love alone
Sunday Adelaja
A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.
Michael Bassey Johnson
True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Our daily endeavours and activities should be about or around these value systems. They reflect love. They reflect care. They reflect kindness. They are qualities of heaven.
Sunday Adelaja
When you have a good heart, kindness becomes a responsibility you take up.
Ufuoma Apoki
You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.
Michael Bassey Johnson