No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
BILL W.The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
More Bill W. Quotes
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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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If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.
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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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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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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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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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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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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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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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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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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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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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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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