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!
JOAN OF ARCI did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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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.
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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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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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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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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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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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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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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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Help yourself and God will help you
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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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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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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