Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
BILL W.Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
BILL W.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.
BILL W.Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
BILL W.More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
BILL W.I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
BILL W.No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
BILL W.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.
BILL W.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 have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
BILL W.No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
BILL W.Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
BILL W.Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
BILL W.Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
BILL W.We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.
BILL W.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.
BILL W.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.
BILL W.