Quotes by Joan of Arc

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

“It is our harsh fate on earth that body and soul should be so closely bound together; that the soul should have to drag the body along, should be exposed to its vicissitudes, should even respond to...”

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

“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could be to anybody, for I did not know that it was i...”

“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 b...”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Act and God will act.”

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

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

“Act and God will act.”

“...you shall never hold the Kingdom of France from God, the King of Heaven, the son of St. Mary; but King Charles, the true heir, will hold it; for God, the King of Heaven wishes it so....”

“You ruin the sacraments of the Church, you rend the articles of Faith, you destroy churches... What rage or madness drives you? This Faith, which Almighty God, which the Son, which the Holy Spirit ...”

“Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.”

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

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