Every man gives his life for what he believes … one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.
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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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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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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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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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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[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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I would have gone nevertheless.
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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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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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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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I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
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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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If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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