[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
JOAN OF ARC… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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Do you know whether or not you are in God’s grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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I would have gone nevertheless.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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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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Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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[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.
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If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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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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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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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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