Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
BILL W.Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.
More Bill W. Quotes
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In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
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I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others.
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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.
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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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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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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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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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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life – the one that did not work – for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.
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Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me.
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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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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.
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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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I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.
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