Top 50 Johanna Spyri Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A bad deed always brings a punishment.”

— Johanna Spyri

2. “God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn’t mean he isn’t answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes.”

— Johanna Spyri

3. “Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.”

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4. “Many strange things happen in this world.”

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5. “Let’s enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot.”

— Johanna Spyri

6. “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.”

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7. “Anger makes us all stupid.”

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8. “Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune.”

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9. “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.”

— Johanna Spyri

10. “Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.”

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11. “Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.”

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12. “I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”

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13. “Heidi, it’s just as if we were in a high carriage and were going to drive straight into heaven.”

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14. “The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that some day everything that we have loved will be given back.”

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15. “If I spend every moment, for the rest of my days, thanking God for all his goodness to us, that would still not be enough.”

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16. “Heidi came running in, “Grandfather can the sun still laugh at me? she asked.”

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17. “God is able to bring good out of evil for those whom you meant to injure, and you who did the evil were left to suffer the unhappy consequences of it.”

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18. “Al abrir los ojos, un rayo de sol dorado penetraba por la ventana e iluminaba, como si fuera oro, todo cuanto la rodeaba.”

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19. “If you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven.”

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20. “It is good to be on the mountain; body and soul get well there, and life becomes happy again.”

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21. “I want to be able to run about like the goats do.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “If God had let me come at once, as I prayed, then everything would have been different, I should only have had a little bread to bring to grandmother, and I should not have been able to read, which is such a comfort to her; but God has arranged it all so much better than I knew how to; everything has happened just as the other grandmother said it would.”

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24. “Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.”

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25. “My heart is sad, my eyes grow dim, Yet do I put my trust in Him, And in due time, all sorrow past, In safety home I’ll come at last.”

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26. “What on earth shall I do.”

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27. “Oh, how glad I am that God did not let me have at once all I prayed and wept for! And now I shall always pray to God as she told me, and always thank Him, and when He does not do anything I ask for I shall think to myself, It’s just like it was in Frankfurt: God, I am sure, is going to do something better still. So we will pray every day, won’t we, grandfather, and never forget Him again, or else He may forget us.”

— Johanna Spyri

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

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29. “Then you must wait,” she said, “and keep on saying to yourself: 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;.”

— Johanna Spyri

30. “You mustn’t hurt him. Let him go.”

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31. “When God has shown us some special mercy we should think at once of those who are denied so many things.”

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32. “God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us.”

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33. “Is it possible! is it really possible! so the dear God has not forgotten us!” exclaimed the grandmother.”

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34. “After many years of joyless life, the blind grandmother had at last found something to make her happy; her days were no longer passed in weariness and darkness, one like the other without pleasure or change, for now she had always something to which she could look forward.”

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35. “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!”

— Johanna Spyri

36. “Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.”

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37. “We must pray to God everyday to show we don’t forget that all gifts come from Him. But if some wishes remain unfulfilled we must show our confidence in Him, for He knows best.”

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38. “The grandfather explained to her that it was the sun that did it. “When he says good-night to the mountains he throws his most beautiful colors over them, so that they may not forget him before he comes again the next day.”

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39. “O how beautiful, look at the crimson snow! And up there on the rocks there are ever so many roses!”

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40. “No one knows what it is to lie here alone day after day, in silence and darkness, without hearing a voice or seeing a ray of light. Sad thoughts come over me, and I do not feel sometimes as if I could bear it any longer or as if it could ever be light again.”

— Johanna Spyri

41. “In the corner near her grandfather’s bed she saw a short ladder against the wall; up she climbed and found herself in the hayloft. There lay a large heap of fresh sweet-smelling hay, while through a round window in the wall she could see right down the valley.”

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42. “Ah, Heidi, that brings light to the heart! What comfort you have brought me!”

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43. “From the old and pleasantly situated village of Mayenfeld, a footpath winds through green and shady meadows to the foot of the mountains, which on this side look down from their stern and lofty heights upon the valley below. The land grows gradually wilder as the path ascends, and the climber has not gone far before he begins to inhale the fragrance of the short grass and sturdy mountain plants, for the way is steep and leads directly up to the summits above.”

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44. “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.”

— Johanna Spyri

45. “But then all at once he wanted to have his own goods and money and to be his own master, and so he asked his father to give him his portion, and he left his home and went and wasted all his substance.”

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46. “We look like Sunday every day now; Heidi did not go abroad for nothing.” After.”

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47. “God could help out of every trouble.”

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48. “But mind, when he explains anything to you, you won’t be able to understand; but don’t ask any questions, or else he will go on explaining and you will understand less than ever. Later when you have learnt more and know about things yourself, then you will begin to understand what he meant.”

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49. “And if it once is so, it is so always; no one can go back, and he whom God has forgotten, is forgotten for ever.”

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50. “New Chapter about New Things.”

— Johanna Spyri