Joan of Arc Quotes
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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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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Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that's more terrible than dying - more terrible than dying young.
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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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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, I would have gone nevertheless.
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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
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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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What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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Help yourself and God will help you
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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... 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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Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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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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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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I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
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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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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!
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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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... since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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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, 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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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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Act, and God will act.
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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 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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I die for speaking the language of the angels.
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