Help yourself and God will help you
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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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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But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!
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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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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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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.
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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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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Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
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Do you know whether or not you are in God’s grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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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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Courage! Do not fall back.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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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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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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Settle 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.
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Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.
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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
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I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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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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Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
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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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[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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I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
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