But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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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Every man gives his life for what he believes … one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.
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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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Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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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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Since 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,
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Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
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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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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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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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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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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 did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.
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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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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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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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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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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.
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I would have gone nevertheless.
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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