Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
JOAN OF ARCBut 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!
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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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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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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[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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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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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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It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
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I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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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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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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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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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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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 did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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