57 Quotes by Saint Patrick

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.

And He watched over me before I knew Him and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil.

[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.

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

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.

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.

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

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.