The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
JOAN OF ARCWatch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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 am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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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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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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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 die for speaking the language of the angels.
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I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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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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The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
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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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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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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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