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,
JOAN OF ARCAlways 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.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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Help yourself and God will help you
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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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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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If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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I die for speaking the language of the angels.
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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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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[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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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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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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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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