Quotes from Joan of Arc

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

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

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

I fear nothing for God is with me!

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

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.

[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.

Help yourself and God will help you

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.

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

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

Courage! Do not fall back.

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

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

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.

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

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

Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

You have been with your counsel and I have been with mine. Believe me that the counsel of my Lord will be accomplished and will stand, and this counsel of yours will perish.

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.

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

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.