Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history

From you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

The beginning is always today.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.

Once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

Learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.