How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
JOAN OF ARC[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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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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[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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It 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.
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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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[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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Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
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Help yourself and God will help you
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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.
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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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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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