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

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

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

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

But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

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

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

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.

What concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.

[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.

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

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

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

I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

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

I thought the answer was to bury the pain deep within, but nothing grows from grief.

Sometimes silence is the only answer.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

She is the answer to my every prayer.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.

Deep within you, you have all the answers.