Someone, somewhere, is depending on you to do what God has called you to do.
-Anonymous
If Jesus is calling you toward religious life or the priesthood, you do not have to understand. You just have to take His hand. Your vocation is beautiful. Your vocation is needed. And you are dearly loved.
-Anonymous
Don’t try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
-Saint John Vianney
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.
-Pope Francis
If someone among you hears Christ’s call to a complete gift of self in the religious life, do not reject such a noble, through demanding, proposal, have the courage to say yes generously and firmly; this can give an incomparable depth of meaning to your whole life.
-Saint John Paul The Great
To be saints is not a privilege for the few, but a vocation for everyone.
-Pope Francis
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
-Thomas More
The priest is not a priest for himself – he is for you. After God, the priest is everything.
-Saint John Vianney
Nuns are a gift, the leaven that carries the message of Christ.
-Pope Francis
The place that God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s hunger meet.
-Fredrick Buechner
If you try to live in the presence of God for one year, you will see yourself at the end of it at the height of perfection, without your even knowing it.
-Saint Teresa of Avila
A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God’s consolation, understanding and love.
-Arthur Middleton
The most important moments in life are the hours of prayer and adoration. They give birth to a human being, fashion our true identity; they root our existence in mystery.
-Cardinal Robert Sarah
The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. When you see a priest, think of our Lord Jesus Christ.
-Saint John Vianney
The Consecrated Life: They make the life, virtues and values of Jesus more visible and point us from the superficial to the sacred and rom the ephemeral to the eternal. They are the living signs of the Resurrection who keep the Church’s salt from loosing its flavor and its love from growing cold.
–Father Roger J. Landry
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
-Pope John XXIII
