Joan Of Arc Quotes

Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.

All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.

I am not afraid; I was born to do this.

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.

Every man gives his life for what he believes ... one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.

I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.

I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.

I die for speaking the language of the angels.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

In God's name let us go on bravely.

I fear nothing for God is with me!

Courage! Do not fall back.

Act, and God will act.

Help yourself and God will help you

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

... since God commanded me to go, I must do it.

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.

I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.

Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.

[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

I am not afraid. ... I was born to do this.

Act and God will act.

He’d never heard of a demon with freckles before.

You can't test courage cautiously.” (Annie Dillard)

I am not afraid I was born to do this.