[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.
JOAN OF ARCI would have gone nevertheless.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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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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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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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.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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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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The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
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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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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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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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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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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 was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told 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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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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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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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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About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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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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