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More Quotes by Saint Patrick
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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.
I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.
I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: "You destroy those who speak a lie." And again: "A lying mouth deals death to the soul." And likewise the Lord says in the Gospel: "On the day of judgment men shall render account for every idle word they utter."
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.
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.
Never trust a dog to watch your food.
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.
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.
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
