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.
JOAN OF ARCFour 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 Orleans.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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I die for speaking the language of the angels.
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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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[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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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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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 would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
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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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Act, and God will act.
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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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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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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Do you know whether or not you are in God’s grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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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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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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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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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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Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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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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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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