[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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Help yourself and God will help you
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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I would have gone nevertheless.
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Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
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It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.
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I die for speaking the language of the angels.
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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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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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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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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
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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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Do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.
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Do you know whether or not you are in God’s grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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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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