About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.
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.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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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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I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.
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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 would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.
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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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If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
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Act, and God will act.
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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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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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Courage! Do not fall back.
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.
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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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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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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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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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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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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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The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
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