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.
JOAN OF ARCSince 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 poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
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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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[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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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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Help yourself and God will help you
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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 answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
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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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I would have gone nevertheless.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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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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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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I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
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