Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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,
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
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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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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 die for speaking the language of the angels.
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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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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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It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.
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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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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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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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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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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 commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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