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.
JOAN OF ARCBut to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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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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Act, and God will act.
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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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Courage! Do not fall back.
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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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I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
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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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[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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Every man gives his life for what he believes … one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.
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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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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 shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.
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