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More Quotes by Saint Patrick
If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God.
I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God.
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more.
Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.
Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
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.
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.
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
