I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
JOAN OF ARCI am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
JOAN OF ARCCourage! Do not fall back.
JOAN OF ARCThe poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
JOAN OF ARCAll battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
JOAN OF ARCMen are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
JOAN OF ARCSettle 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.
JOAN OF ARCIf ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.
JOAN OF ARCSince 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.
JOAN OF ARCWhat concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.
JOAN OF ARCDo you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.
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 Orléans.
JOAN OF ARCI fear nothing for God is with me!
JOAN OF ARC… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
JOAN OF ARCI 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 ARCThe 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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