Act, and God will act.
JOAN OF ARC[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.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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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 know whether or not you are in God’s grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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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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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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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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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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I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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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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