I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
JOAN OF ARCI did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
JOAN OF ARCI 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.
JOAN OF ARCI would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
JOAN OF ARCI used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
JOAN OF ARCBut to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
JOAN OF ARCYou say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
JOAN OF ARC[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
JOAN OF ARCSettle 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.
JOAN OF ARCI place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.
JOAN OF ARC… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
JOAN OF ARC[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 ARCOf 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.
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.
JOAN OF ARCEvery 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.
JOAN OF ARCIf 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.
JOAN OF ARCHow else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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