But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
JOAN OF ARCThe angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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 used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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Help yourself and God will help you
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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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I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
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I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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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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It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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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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Act, and God will act.
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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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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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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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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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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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You 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.
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I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.
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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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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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