Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
BILL W.When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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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Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
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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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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God.
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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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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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When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
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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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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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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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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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