I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.
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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I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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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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Help yourself and God will help you
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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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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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If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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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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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 commanded me to go, I must do it.
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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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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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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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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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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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