I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
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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I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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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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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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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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I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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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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Courage! Do not fall back.
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I would have gone nevertheless.
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Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.
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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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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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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
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