If I Be Not In A State

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.