I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
JOAN OF ARCI would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
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Help yourself and God will help you
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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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The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
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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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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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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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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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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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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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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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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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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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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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I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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I die for speaking the language of the angels.
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Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter,
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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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What concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.
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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 answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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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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