Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening.
BILL W.We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there.
More Bill W. Quotes
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True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
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I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.
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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.
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We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.
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When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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