How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
JOAN OF ARC[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.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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Settle 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.
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I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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Help yourself and God will help you
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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 used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin.
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I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.
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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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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 would have gone nevertheless.
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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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Courage! Do not fall back.
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Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.
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