Quotes from Johanna Spyri

the other he keeps away from church. People get out of his way when he appears once in a twelve-month down here among us. We all fear him and he is really just like a heathen or an old Indian, with those thick grey eyebrows and that huge uncanny beard. When he wanders along the road with his twisted stick we are

With great animation Heidi read the story of the prodigal son

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

as to tell him so to his face. Our minister endeavored to

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 someday everything that we have loved will be given back to us.—

ahora sintiese una dicha muy grande al despertarse en su nueva morada, pensando en todas las cosas bonitas que había visto el día anterior y en lo que podría ver hoy

ella irá contigo y permanecerá a tu lado hasta que vuelvas.

my tutor is very kind, and never cross, and he will explain everything to you. 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.

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!

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

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.

we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better.

sobre la que se elevaba la cabaña del Viejo. Expuesta a todos los vientos, pero situada de forma que recibía los rayos de sol de la mañana hasta la noche, la cabaña gozaba de un amplio panorama sobre todo el valle.

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

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

and on the floor of a goatherd's hut there are all sorts of things that do not belong to a dress.

Going up to the Alm-Uncle

echaba de menos poder correr al aire libre.

en otro lugar brillaba vivo el color de las azules gencianas

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. But when you come and read those words to me, then I am comforted and my heart rejoices once more.

Heidi, read me one of the hymns! I can feel I can do nothing for the remainder of my life but thank the Father in Heaven for all the mercies he has shown us!

fragrance of the short grass and sturdy mountain-plants, for the way is steep and leads directly up to the summits above.

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

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