I Am Certain In My Heart That

I Am Patrick, Yes A Sinner And Indeed Untaught; Yet I Am Established Here In Ireland Where I Profess Myself Bishop. I Am Certain In My Heart That 'all That I Am,' I Have Received From God. So I Live Among Barbarous Tribes, A Stranger And Exile For The Love Of God.

The Lord Opened The Understanding Of My Unbelieving Heart, So That I Should Recall My Sins.

He [god] Watched Over Me Before I Knew Him, And Before I Learned Sense Or Even Distinguished Between Good And Evil, And He Protected Me, And Consoled Me As A Father Would His Son.

Christ Beside Me, Christ Before Me, Christ Behind Me, Christ Within Me, Christ Beneath Me, Christ Above Me.

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.