Saint Patrick

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

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

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.

Sufficient to say greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbors goods.

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

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.

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.

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.