[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 ARCMen are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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Help yourself and God will help you
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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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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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If 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.
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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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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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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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Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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Do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.
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Act, and God will act.
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I would have gone nevertheless.
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Four 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.
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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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