But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
JOAN OF ARCBut to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
JOAN OF ARCMen are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
JOAN OF ARCIf I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.
JOAN OF ARCTruly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
JOAN OF ARCI would have gone nevertheless.
JOAN OF ARCThe Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
JOAN OF ARCKing of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
JOAN OF ARCAlways 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.
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 ARCIf I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
JOAN OF ARCChildren say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
JOAN OF ARCYet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
JOAN OF ARCIt is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
JOAN OF ARCAlas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
JOAN OF ARCI answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
JOAN OF ARCHow else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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