The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts Quotes

“B'ao ku ishe o tan When there is life, there is still hope.”
― Baba Ifa Karade, The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts

“The indigenous Yoruba has a belief in the existence of a self-existent being who is believed to be responsible for the creation and maintenance of heaven and earth, of men and women, and who also brought into being divinities and spirits who are believed to be his functionaries in the theocratic world as well as intermediaries between mankind and the self-existent Being.”2 The Yoruba word for God is both Oludumare and Olorun. There is no doubt that the African conceived the One God theosophy eons before external foreign influence.”
― Baba Ifa Karade, The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts

“Ashes fly back into the face of he who throws them.”
― Baba Ifa Karade, The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts

“The heart of the wise lay quiet like the peaceful waters.”
― Baba Ifa Karade, The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts