As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
JOAN OF ARCHow else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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I would have gone nevertheless.
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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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I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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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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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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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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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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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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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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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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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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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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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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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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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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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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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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