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.
JOAN OF ARCIf I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
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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Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.
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Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.
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Help yourself and God will help you
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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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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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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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[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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If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.
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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take 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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It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.
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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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