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.
JOAN OF ARCI 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.
JOAN OF ARCFar rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
JOAN OF ARCIf 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.
JOAN OF ARCBut to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
JOAN OF ARCCourage! Do not fall back.
JOAN OF ARCI die for speaking the language of the angels.
JOAN OF ARCIt 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.
JOAN OF ARC[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 ARCEverything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
JOAN OF ARCAlas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
JOAN OF ARCIt is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
JOAN OF ARCI did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
JOAN OF ARC[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
JOAN OF ARCThe poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
JOAN OF ARCIn His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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.
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