Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
BILL W.Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
More Bill W. Quotes
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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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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.
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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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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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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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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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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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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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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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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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Each day my friend’s simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.
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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.
BILL W.