I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

Never trust a dog to watch your food.

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

Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.

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.

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

I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God.