Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
JOAN OF ARCEvery 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.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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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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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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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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Act, and God will act.
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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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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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If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin.
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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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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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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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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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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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