Read More“Resentment is the 'number one' offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.”
~Alcoholics Anonymous, How It Works, pg. 64~
Read More“When it will serve any good purpose, we are willing to announce our convictions with tact and common sense.”
~Alcoholics Anonymous, Into Action, Pg. 77~
Read More“Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, There Is A Solution, Pg. 64~
Read More“We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but it's application presented difficulties beyond our conception. What with our ultra-modern standards, our scientific approach to everything, we are perhaps not well equipped to apply the powers of good that lie outside our synthetic knowledge."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, The Doctor's Opinion, Pg. xxvii~
“That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is how we react--so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.”
~Alcoholics Anonymous, More about Alcoholism Pg. 84-85~
Read More"We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 25~
Read MoreRead More“Job or no job, wife or no wife, we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 98~
"The minute we put our work on a service plane, the alcoholic commences to rely upon our assistance rather than upon God. He clamors for this or that, claiming he cannot master alcohol until his material needs are cared for. Nonsense. Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth…”
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 98~
Read More“That was in June, 1935. He never drank again. He too, has become a respected and useful member of his community. He has helped other men recover, and is a power in the church from which he was long absent.”
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You pg. 158~
Read MoreRead More"On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator, and said he was perfectly willing to do anything necessary. His wife came, scarcely daring to be hopeful, though she thought she saw something different about her husband already. He had begun to have a spiritual experience.”
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You pg. 158~
Read More"The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 83~
Read More“Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions. Therefore, we started upon a personal inventory. This was Step Four."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 63~
"Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted. Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 63~
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Read More"This short word somehow touches about every aspect of our lives. It was an evil and corroding thread; the fabric of our existence was shot through with it. It set in motion trains of circumstances which brought us misfortune we felt we didn't deserve. But did not we, ourselves, set the ball rolling?
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works pg. 67-8~
Read More“We of agnostic temperament found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.”
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics pg. 46~
Read More“Next day found the prospect more receptive. He had been thinking it over. “Maybe you’re right,” he said. “God ought to be able to do anything.” Then he added, “He sure didn’t do much for me when I was trying to fight this booze racket alone.”
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You pg. 157-158~
Read More“The two friends spoke of their spiritual experience and told him about the course of action they carried out. He interrupted: “I used to be strong for the church, but that won’t fix it. I’ve prayed to God on hangover mornings and sworn that I’d never touch another drop but by nine o’clock I’d be boiled as an owl.”
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You pg. 157-158~
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Read More“Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us--sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.”
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More about Alcoholism pg. 84~
Read More“For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 55~
