I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
JOAN OF ARCI would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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I would have gone nevertheless.
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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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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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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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[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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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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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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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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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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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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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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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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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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