Help yourself and God will help you
JOAN OF ARCHelp yourself and God will help you
JOAN OF ARCIf 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.
JOAN OF ARCI 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.
JOAN OF ARCCourage! Do not fall back.
JOAN OF ARCIf 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.
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 ARCEven little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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 ARCWatch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
JOAN OF ARCI used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
JOAN OF ARCHope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.
JOAN OF ARCI answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
JOAN OF ARCEven though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
JOAN OF ARCI place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.
JOAN OF ARCFour things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.
JOAN OF ARCAlas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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