Quotes from Joan of Arc

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

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.

Act, and God will act.

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

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.