[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 ARCCourage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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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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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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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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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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Courage! Do not fall back.
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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 would have gone nevertheless.
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Settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
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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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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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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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If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
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Help yourself and God will help you
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I die for speaking the language of the angels.
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I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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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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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.
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I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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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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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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Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
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Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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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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Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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