I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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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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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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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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I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
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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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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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I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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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 am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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Always 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.
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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 used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.
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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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Help yourself and God will help you
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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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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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What concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.
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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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