There the Lord opened the sense of my unbelief that I might at last remember my sins and then turn with all my heart to the Lord my God, who had regard for my low estate, and took pity on my youth and ignorance, and watched over me before
I knew Him, and before I was able to distinguish between good and evil, and guarded me, and comforted me as would a father his son.

Preface to St. Patrick's Confession