No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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.
More Bill W. Quotes
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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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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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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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We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.
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If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life – the one that did not work – for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.
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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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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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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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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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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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Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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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.
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