Maggie Gobranm

Retomando o discurso de Maggie Gobranm, também conhecida pela Madre Teresa do Cairo na conferência The Global Leadership Summit 2012 (excertos):

We don’t choose where to be born but we choose to be sinners or saints.
We choose whether to be a nobody or a hero.
If you want to be a hero do what God wants you to do.
Twenty five years ago I heard my “tough call.”
When God wanted to promote me, He sent me to the poorest of the poor.
Everyone who carries the fragrance of eternity has to experience the dark valley of death.
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To be elegant comes from the inside.
True love is to give and forgive.
To give until it hurts.
Forgiveness is not between you and another, forgiveness is between you and God.
God holds our accounts.
People laugh when they hurt.
We are forgiven much but live so little.
With God’s grace I left everything and found Him waiting for me with a crown of love.
When you die to yourself you discover the beauty and power in yourself.
Who are the poorest of the poor? The children.
Children are hungry and starving… for love and affection.
They are naked… lacking dignity
When one has nothing God becomes everything
When I touch a poor child, I touch Jesus Christ.
When I listen to a poor child, I’m listening to God’s heart beating for all humanity.
We build a church in the heart of every child we reach in a country where it’s not always possible to build a church.

The Kingdom is within you.
The silence is the secret – the first step – to finding treasure.
There are secrets in silence.

Silence your body to listen.
Silence your tongue to listen to your thoughts.
Silence your thoughts to listen to your heart beating.
Silence your heart to listen to your spirit.
Silence your spirit to listen to His Spirit.
In silence you leave many and be with the One.
If God has chosen me, believe me when I say I’m the least of any of you here.