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I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God.

Saint Patrick

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
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
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
SAINT PATRICK

Inspirational Prayer Religion
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.
SAINT PATRICK

Establishment God Heart Live Love Myself Sin
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
Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
SAINT PATRICK

Deeds Greed Neighbor
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.
SAINT PATRICK

God Heaven Nation Recognition
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK

Believe God Heart Sin Understand
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
If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God.
SAINT PATRICK

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

God Heart Myself
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

End Faith Himself Life Perseverance
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
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
He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
SAINT PATRICK

Believe God Himself Save
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

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