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Therefore be amazed, you great and small who fear God, and you men of God, eloquent speakers, listen and contemplate.

— Saint Patrick The Confession (452)

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

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.

Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus (450)

I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity.

The Confession (452)

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.

The Confession (452)

I am at a loss to know whether to weep more for those they killed or those that are captured: or indeed for these men themselves whom the devil has taken fast for his slaves.

Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus (450)

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