Sunday Adelaja Quotes

The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Having been privileged to consult and speak in parliaments and to the governments of some of the leading countries in the world, it would be a waste if I don’t contribute my quota and do my best to help rescue my continent from that backwardness and darkness that Africa is largely agonizing in at present.

~ Sunday Adelaja

People who know God truly change the life of their nation, and not the government.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When the citizens of a nation have been made to love and adhere to values and virtues, then they make better choices.

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Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment.

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At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life.

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Only dedication to God’s calling can make you say a firm “no” to everything that is in the way of its fulfillment.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work.

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If a man realizes who he is, he is aware of his value

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We should teach people to value more the eternal values.

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If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car.

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If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics.

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The value of time is only equal to the value of life.

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If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is only when the proper value system is well embraced by the populace that a country begins to produce God fearing leaders that are free from the mentality of eating from the national cake.

~ 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.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

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The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When we possess something without knowing its value, we abuse it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life

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There is simply nothing of comparable value to life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When we don’t see the value of a thing, we don’t put the protective edge.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing – abuse!

~ Sunday Adelaja

Our people must be taught to desist from accepting bribes. The ability to say NO, must become a core value of our nation

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life.

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Most of the deaths before seventy years old in our world, could actually be prevented if the various individuals had only treated their lives with more caution and sense of value.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value.

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That lack of value sense would deprive a person from a protective instinct.

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Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess.

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Salvation is the most important thing that a person has and the devil knows very well what its value is.

~ Sunday Adelaja