I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God. Saint Patrick More Quotes by Saint Patrick More Quotes From Saint Patrick I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. Saint Patrick despised faithful eye He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken. Saint Patrick apostles doe believe 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. Saint Patrick wonder heaven way The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. Saint Patrick catholic understanding heart So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. Saint Patrick tribes stranger god-love I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain. Saint Patrick vain heart grieving 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. Saint Patrick pleasure ignorance perfect 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. Saint Patrick latin doe believe If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me. Saint Patrick despise worthy may Avarice is a deadly sin. Saint Patrick deadly avarice sin It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days. Saint Patrick me god heart long Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies. Saint Patrick never me heart men I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble rank - I blush not to state it, nor am I sorry - for the profit of others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Saint Patrick i-am sorry life father I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes. Saint Patrick eyes god heart food 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. Saint Patrick gift i-am god love The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. Saint Patrick than enough lord said I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith. Saint Patrick faith god love life The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God. Saint Patrick me god heart remember I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me. Saint Patrick me old-age youth age I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. Saint Patrick things child me poor
