Joan Of Arc Quotes

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.

Do you smell something burning or is it me?

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

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

If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it. I think I was about thirteen when it came to me for the first time.

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.

Courage! Do not fall back.

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

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.

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

What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.

Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.

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

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

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

[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.

Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

I die for speaking the language of the angels.

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

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.

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

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

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 fear nothing for God is with me!

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France ... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

Act, and God will act.

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

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.

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

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

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