Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
JOAN OF ARCI am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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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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I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
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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 am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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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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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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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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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 would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
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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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If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
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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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[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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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.
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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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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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
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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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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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