Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
BILL W.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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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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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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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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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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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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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.
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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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For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
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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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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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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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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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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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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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