No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God’s good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that – as is the perfect truth – it was the gift of God.
SAINT PATRICKI pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.
More Saint Patrick Quotes
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Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.
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Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
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If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.
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Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.
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I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.
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If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.
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For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.
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So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
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I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that ‘all that I am,’ I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
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May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore.
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