Some people find the courage to face impossible odds through a conviction that feels bigger than themselves. Joan of Arc, the French peasant girl who led troops during the Hundred Years' War as a teenager with no military training, is one of history's most striking examples. Facing her own trial for her life, she said plainly, "All I have done is by Our Lord's command... I have done nothing in the world but by the order of God." She was not claiming personal glory for anything she had done. She was placing all of it somewhere else entirely, a distinction that mattered enormously to her, even when doing so put her own life in genuine danger.
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