[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.
JOAN OF ARCIf 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.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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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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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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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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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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In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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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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I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse.
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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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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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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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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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