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.
JOAN OF ARCWhat concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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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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It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.
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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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Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.
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Act, and God will act.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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Do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.
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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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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
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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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It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.
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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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It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
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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 would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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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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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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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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