I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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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[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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Courage! Do not fall back.
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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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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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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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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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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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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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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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I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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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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I would have gone nevertheless.
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