Sjogren's Quotes

No cause was won that wasn't first mocked, no gate stands wide that wasn't at first locked.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self-conscious, so apparently moral…. I won’t have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous … more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

The Fairshare Model doesn't present a better way to value future performance at an IPO. It says, don't even try to project it--assign no value to it. Instead, figure out how to reward actual performance.

No cause was won that wasn't first mocked, no gate was opened that wasn't first closed.

If you have a childlike relationship with God,” I said, “you have nothing to fear in death. Death is not the big, scary, overwhelming enemy that our culture has made it out to be. Until we get past our fear of death, we will be prevented from taking risks in life.

I dream of a simple church marked by the simple proposition that we are “otherly.

God is in the business of shattering our dreams...God wants to shatter every dream we have that is not of Him. God wants us to have the very best, and the very best happens to be Himself.