I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
JOAN OF ARC
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,
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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[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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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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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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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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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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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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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 am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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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 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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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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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.
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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.
JOAN OF ARC