Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.

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

In God's name let us go on bravely.

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

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that's more terrible than dying - more terrible than dying young.

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