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 PATRICKFor 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.
More Saint Patrick Quotes
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Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
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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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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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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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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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Never trust a dog to watch your food.
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So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
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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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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above 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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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.
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That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
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I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God.
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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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He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
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