Gillian Sorensen quotes

Gillian Sorensen quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace”
-- Gillian Sorensen

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“The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.”
“I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today. ~Jessop”
“...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...”
“We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue...that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,”
“Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.”
“If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence.”

Source : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.217, Oxford University Press
“UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.”
“The United Nations has no business in our elections.”
“There's no such thing as the United Nations,”
“The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.”

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