It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
JOAN OF ARCEven little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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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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[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
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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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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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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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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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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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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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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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[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 used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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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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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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