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.
JOAN OF ARCAs for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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I would have gone nevertheless.
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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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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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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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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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If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
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I die for speaking the language of the angels.
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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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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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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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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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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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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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[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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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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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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Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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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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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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