Charles Apoki > Quotes

“One challenge with backward, traditional, and unduly religious people is that routine takes precedence over results. When that happens, backwardness is inevitable.”
― Charles Apoki

“The value of knowledge is best appreciated in its absence.”
― Charles Apoki

“Grace should not negate value.”
― Charles Apoki

“Religion is, sometimes, presented as if you don't please God, you cannot be productive. However, it is your productivity that pleases God; He takes delight in the prosperity of His children.”
― Charles Apoki

“The church celebrates people, possessions, and performances without a hunger to know the principles, practices, processes, procedures, and philosophies of attaining such heights. Therefore, our members remain fans and commentators, instead of team players. Commentators and fans don't get paid and don't win medals.”
― Charles Apoki

“One problem with our youths, in Africa and Nigeria, particularly, is that the education they received conditioned them for a functional society, which is, most times, non-existent. The resultant effect is that they are functioning below their level of education.”
― Charles Apoki

“One problem with the black man is too much emphasis on the miraculous, which indicates to them that they can circumvent principles, practices, philosophies, processes, procedures, and planning to achieve greatness. There is nothing more delusionary than that. The miraculous is a circumstantial intervention of divinity in the affairs of humanity. That Jesus multiplied bread and fish did not prevent men and women from opening bakeries and fishing the next day. The black man would have started a "Fish and Bread Multiplication" ministry. This kind of mindset makes religion an assassin of the intellect and creates a bunch of irresponsible citizenry that outsources their problems to God, when He expects them to use their brains. Problems that can be solved with our minds are outsourced to God in prayers.”
― Charles Apoki