Johanna Spyri Quotes

What on earth shall I do

It (nursing) comes more from care than study.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

God is a good father to us all, and knows better than we do what is good for us. If we ask Him for something that is not good for us, He does not give it, but something better still, if only we will continue to pray earnestly and do not run away and lose our trust in Him. God did not think what you have been praying for was good for you just now; but be sure He heard you, for He can hear and see every one at the same time, because He is a God and not a human being like you and me. And because He thought it was better for you not to have at once what you wanted, He said to Himself:

because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

With great animation Heidi read the story of the prodigal son,

Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune.

acuérdate que mañana estaré otra vez a tu lado, y que ya no has de balar con tanta tristeza.

A bad deed always brings a punishment.

God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not run away. And then all at once something happens and we see clearly ourselves that God has had some good thought in His mind all along; but because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

But then we must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

Sometimes I felt as if I could not bear it any longer to be away from you!

But she had to go to bed first, and all night she slept soundly on her bed of hay, dreaming of nothing but of shining mountains with red roses all over them, among which happy little Snowflake went leaping in and out.

you are so unhappy, because you know no one who can help you. Think what a comfort it is when the heart is heavy with grief to be able at any moment to go and tell everything to God, and pray Him for the help that no one else can give us. And He can help us and give us everything that will make us happy again.

God has arranged it all so much better than I knew how to; everything has happened just as the other grandmother said it would. Oh, how glad I am that God did not let me have at once all I prayed and wept for!