[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
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.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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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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Every man gives his life for what he believes … one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.
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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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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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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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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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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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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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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.
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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
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