It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
JOAN OF ARCThe angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
-
-
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!
JOAN OF ARC -
I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
JOAN OF ARC -
How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
JOAN OF ARC -
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,
JOAN OF ARC -
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.
JOAN OF ARC -
Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
JOAN OF ARC -
I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC -
I would have gone nevertheless.
JOAN OF ARC -
I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.
JOAN OF ARC -
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.
JOAN OF ARC -
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.
JOAN OF ARC -
Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
JOAN OF ARC -
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.
JOAN OF ARC -
Do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.
JOAN OF ARC -
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
JOAN OF ARC