More Quotes by Saint Patrick
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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.
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God.
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.
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.
Christ before me, Christ behind me,Christ in me.
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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.
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.
