The Confession of Saint Patrick Quotes

“I know for certain, that before I was humbled I was like a stone lying in deep mire, and he that is mighty came and in his mercy raised me up and, indeed, lifted me high up and placed me on top of the wall. And from there I ought to shout out in gratitude to the Lord for his great favours in this world and for ever, that the mind of man cannot measure.”
― St. Patrick, The Confession of Saint Patrick

“For daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of Heaven; for I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, who reigns everywhere. As the prophet says: ‘Cast your burden on the Lord and he will sustain you.”
― St. Patrick, The Confessions of St. Patrick

“Each and all shall render account for even our smallest sins before the judgement seat of Christ the Lord.”
― St. Patrick, The Confession of Saint Patrick

“57. For which reason I should make return for all that he returns me. But what should I say, or what should I promise to my Lord, for I, alone, can do nothing unless he himself vouchsafe it to me. But let him search my heart and [my] nature, for I crave enough for it, even too much, and I am ready for him to grant me that I drink of his chalice, as he has granted to others who love him.”
― St. Patrick, The Confession of St. Patrick

“in a single day I have said as many as a hundred prayers, and in the night almost as many;”
― St. Patrick, The Confession of St. Patrick

“for daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of Heaven; for I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, who reigns everywhere. As the prophet says: Cast your burden on the Lord and he will sustain you.”
― St. Patrick, The Confession of St. Patrick

“We entreat thee, holy youth, to come and walk still among us.”
― St. Patrick, The Confession of St. Patrick

“The monasteries established in Ireland were rather institutions for educating clergy and others, than what is now understood by the term, and they appear to have been nearly the same as our colleges, in which the professors are generally unmarried.”
― St. Patrick, The Confession of St. Patrick: Translated from the Original Latin with an Introduction and Notes

“There is a tradition relating to the proceedings of St. Patrick in this place, which deserves to be noticed, as an example of the way in which Roman Catholic miracles come into existence. One of his biographers states, that when he arrived at the top of the mountain he was surrounded by vast numbers of birds; other writers, improving on this simple fact, transformed the birds into demons, and described him as driving them into the sea at the foot of the mountain. Another, again, perhaps believing reptiles and demons to belong to the same genus, adds, that all the venomous reptiles were collected there from every part of Ireland, and “in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”[56] This is firmly believed by the peasantry at the present day; and it is from such lying wonders they derive their ideas of the character and acts of St. Patrick.”
― St. Patrick, The Confession of St. Patrick: Translated from the Original Latin with an Introduction and Notes