I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
JOAN OF ARC[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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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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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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[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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Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
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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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I would have gone nevertheless.
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Act, and God will act.
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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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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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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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