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.

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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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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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So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

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

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That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

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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.

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If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

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Never trust a dog to watch your food.

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