Winston Churchill 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.

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

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

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

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

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.

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.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

I will be a priest forever.

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

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

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.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

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

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

I didn’t want to be a nun.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.

As a senior in high school, I had a strong sense that God wanted me in some kind of ministry.