Joan of Arc Quotes on Courage
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What I said was: 'Go boldly among the English,' and I went among them, too!
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And if I were condemned and brought to the place of judgment and I saw the torch lit and the faggots ready, and the executioner ready to kindle the fire, and if I were within the fire, yet I would say nothing else and I would maintain unto death what I have said in this trial!
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I am not afraid: I was born to do this.
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Take heart and come on! I will not fly away.
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I fear nothing, for God is with me.
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Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.