It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.
JOAN OF ARCIt is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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[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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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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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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I 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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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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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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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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[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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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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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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Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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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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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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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin.
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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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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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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 commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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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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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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