In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
BILL W.In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
More Bill W. Quotes
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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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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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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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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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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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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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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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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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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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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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 have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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