[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.
JOAN OF ARCI am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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If 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.
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If 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.
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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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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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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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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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The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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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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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
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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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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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