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

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.

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.

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.

Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.

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

I fear nothing for God is with me!

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

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.

In God’s name let us go on bravely.

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.

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.

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

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 did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.

Do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.

The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.

If I’m educated and passionate about a topic, I’ll answer the question. But I also know when to shut the hell up.

How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.

If you have a problem with my answer that’s your problem, not my problem.

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one’s thought of that before.

Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn’t occur again.