“The seminary is a community journeying towards priestly ministry. I have said something very important here: one does not become a priest on one’s own.”
Pope Benedict XVI

"Your wish to become a priest, or at least your wish to discover if you are being called to be one.  And so the question is a serious one, because you have to prepare thoroughly, with clear intentions and an austere formation."

Blessed Pope John Paul II

“Above all, your time in the seminary is also a time of study. The Christian faith has an essentially rational and intellectual dimension. Were it to lack that dimension, it would not be itself.”  Pope Benedict XVI

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
Blessed Mother Teresa

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”
St. Thomas Aquinas