Bernie Siegel Quotes

Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

There is no medicine like hope.

Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

Hope is a passion for the possible.

"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.

I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out. The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you. You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.