Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
JOAN OF ARCEven though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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Help yourself and God will help you
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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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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.
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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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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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I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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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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Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
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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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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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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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