Garry Wills Quotes

I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

I will be a priest forever.

I wanted to be a priest when I was really young.

Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices.

I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.

I don't think I'm going to be priest material.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.