Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one.
If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.
Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Never trust a dog to watch your food.
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me
He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.”
I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God.”
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.”
If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God.
But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven
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.
Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods
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.”
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.”
The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
Sufficient for me is that honor which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
He that offer the sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrifice the son in the presence of his father.
Avarice is a deadly sin.
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
I have a creator who knew all things, even before they were made – even me, his poor little child.
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.”
Luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’ve prepared for it.
Hence I cannot be silent, and indeed I ought not to be, about the many blessings and the great grace which the Lord has designed to bestow upon me
May the blessing of each day be the blessings you need most.”
‘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.”
Hence I cannot be silent, and indeed I ought not to be, about the many blessings and the great grace which the Lord has designed to bestow upon me.”
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.”
May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out.”
And he watched over me before I knew him and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil.”