Quotes from Johanna Spyri

A bad deed always brings a punishment.

No, but I feel as if a big stone is pressing me here.

Dont grieve any more, see I am coming up with you everyday now, and if there is anything the matter, you can come to me.

It (nursing) comes more from care than study.

Heidi loudly wailed, "Oh I want to go home. What the poor snowhopper will do without me? Grandmother is waiting for me everyday. Poor Thistlefinch gets blows if Peter gets no cheese, and I must see the sun again when he says good-night to the mountains. How the eagle would screech if he saw all the people here in Frankfurt.

Heidi came running in, "Grandfather can the sun still laugh at me? she asked

Anger makes us all stupid.

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.

if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!

What on earth shall I do

For mercy's sake, the child is crazy! exclaimed Miss Rottenmeier, running up the stairs. In her hurry she had bumped into Sebastian, who was just then coming down. Bring the unlucky child up! she called to him, rubbing her head. All right, many thanks, answered the butler, rubbing his head, too, for he had encountered something far harder than she had.

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;

You mustn't hurt him. Let him go

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.

The fire in the evening was the best of all. Peter said is wasn't fie, but he couldn't tell me what it really was. You can thought, Grandfather, can't you?' 'It's the sun's way of saying goodnight to the mountains' he explained. 'He spreads that beautiful light over them so that they won't forget him till he comes back in the morning.

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.

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.

Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune.

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

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.

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

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

God could help out of every trouble.

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.