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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.

Saint Patrick

I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.
SAINT PATRICK

Feeling Hurt Myself Prayer Rain
He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.
SAINT PATRICK

Evil Father Protection Save Son
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 PATRICK

Gift God Happiness Ignorance Perfection
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
SAINT PATRICK

God Live Love Myself
I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God.
SAINT PATRICK

God Heart Myself
If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
SAINT PATRICK

Hate Live Myself Worth
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.
SAINT PATRICK

Beginning Hide Laughter Silence Time
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
SAINT PATRICK

Eyes Faith Hate Loyalty
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.
SAINT PATRICK

Eyes Heart Men Religious See
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.
SAINT PATRICK

Compassion Himself Humilition Myself
I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul’s desire.
SAINT PATRICK

Angel Character Desire Imperfection Nature Soul
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.
SAINT PATRICK

Forever God Hands Protection Strength Wisdom
Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
SAINT PATRICK

Deeds Greed Neighbor
I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.
SAINT PATRICK

Grief Happiness Heart Myself Yourself
If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God.
SAINT PATRICK

God Life Live Myself Worth
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.
SAINT PATRICK

Expectation Heaven Promise Slave

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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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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