I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
JOAN OF ARCTruly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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Help yourself and God will help you
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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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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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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[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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I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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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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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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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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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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