Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 77

There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding
Sunday Adelaja
Your old traditional way of thinking is your problem
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God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task
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Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God
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Always using the same methods is not God’s way
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It is important to remember that good overcomes evil
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We stand and fight for God’s truth and with the truth we will win
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We must stand so firmly for the truth so that we do not back down because every movement away from righteousness and God’s truth is similar to death
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We should be unshakable and uncompromising while we stand for God’s truth
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As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked
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Those who become successful are those who have decided to ‘take the bull by the horns
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It is only necessary to believe and begin to move forward toward the set goals
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If Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, if the Holy Spirit lives in you, then God guarantees your success
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The thoughts that you will never make it comes to every person who ever did something great in their lives
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A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to
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We, as children of God, have an advantage over the world
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We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence
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You must learn to overcome your cowardice, and put God, His principles and the things of His kingdom, that you are called to establish, first in your life
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We must persistently establish God’s truth and stand for it to the end
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In life there will be so many pressing demands, and there will be a mass of pressure on you, but you must be so disciplined so that you can go through these things and come out victorious
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The desire to be nice to everyone and please everyone and the inability to firmly say no is what destroys believers most of all
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We should not be careless toward the fulfillment of our calling
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When we fight with the truth and stand in it to the end, then God Himself comes and confirms His Word, His righteousness and His truth
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All things are possible not only to God but also to the man who truly and firmly believes in Him
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God is always creating something new, He wants to give us new information and reveal to us new secrets in order to exalt us over this world
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Seeds of talents and abilities have been placed in us
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You cannot see God until you notice people
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People can copy anything; your mode of dressing, the way you talk, walk, dance, sing, cry, but they will find it very hard to imitate the way you donate money.
Michael Bassey Johnson
And don't tell me debt is not a big deal. Debt will cut off your legs and laugh at you as you grovel in the dirt begging for mercy. If you don't need it, don't get it. If you can't afford it, don't get it. If you're already in debt, get out quickly. If you think you'll never get out, you're right, you won't.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to  readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There's organized confusion on African roads while driving in the cities. If you want to mess up Afican Cities very easy, just fly in 100 Americans put them on the road and tell them to drive.
Jidenna
Music originated from God and was created solely for his worship, his glory, and his pleasure.
Pedro Okoro
No matter how successful you are, you have to keep improving yourself. Otherwise, you will get stuck in what was once considered modern. Today, you can't solve iPad problems with typewriter knowledge and in the years to come, we shall look at the iPad and say how come we were so excited about that.
Damilola Oluwatoyinbo
through faith we overcome, through fate we drown
Ikechukwu Joseph
HE TEN LEPERS: Handling ingratitude with disapproval-And Jesus Answer, were there not 10 cleansed but where are 9?
Ikechukwu Joseph
We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.
Idowu Koyenikan
Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.
Idowu Koyenikan
you are a shadow of the person you are following or understudying
Ikechukwu Joseph
Gods strength is manifestly perfected in your weakest weakness
Ikechukwu Joseph
As thy days are so shall thy strength be.d harder so ur overcoming strength
Ikechukwu Joseph
You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.
Idowu Koyenikan
Sex outside of marriage is an abuse.
Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure.
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Many are busy looking for a life partner and they lose touch of their life's purpose.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
My dear sister, if Judas (from Jesus church) had come to you and proposed marriage to you, would you have refused him? You make a big big biiiiiig mistake not to ask God in prayer before choosing a wife /Husband AND RECEIVING A DEFINITE ANSWER FROM HIM.Are you still thinking "Unbeliever" means people who are not in the message church?Church was indeed a kaboooooooooom!
Mary Tornyenyor
Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Learn to set the pace for your relationship as a couple...not how the world thinks but how God designed it to be.
Kemi Sogunle
There comes a time when one suddenly discovers that there will never be a time for the coming of the perfect person, or believe that God sends people from heaven, so one finds a random fellow, either righteous or unrighteous, excellent or Impaired, and in no time become what God had ordained.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself.
Kemi Sogunle
Young men ... learn practical skills that set is in good stead for lives as the husbands of wealthy and educated women: Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, Explosive Displays of Authority, Sport and Nutrition Against Impotance.
Helen Oyeyemi
She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.
Buchi Emecheta
You are not a biomass, you were not born only to be like a bush or tree, just to marry, reproduce and die
Sunday Adelaja
It is important to create a family and bring up a child: these things are good and even necessary
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Some people live for the sake of their partners and derive their strength and energy from them
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Even a good family can become a trap for one’s destiny when the family becomes your aim
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Marriage is the only Institution With One Access: Entrance Only, No Exit, No Outing Option So Look Well Before You Dive Into It
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pain in life is inevitable.
Sunday Adelaja