I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
JOAN OF ARCThe poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I would have gone nevertheless.
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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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It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
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