Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
JOAN OF ARCSettle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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,
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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.
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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!
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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.
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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.
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I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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