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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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

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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.

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I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.

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I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

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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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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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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.

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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 before me, Christ behind me,Christ in me.

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