I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
JOAN OF ARCIt is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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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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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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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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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
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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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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.
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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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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
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Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
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