[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
JOAN OF ARCIf 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.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
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But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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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.
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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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I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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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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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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I would have gone nevertheless.
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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 commanded me to go, I must do it.
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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.
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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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I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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