Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
BILL W.The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
More Bill W. Quotes
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
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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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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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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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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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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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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If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.
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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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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made 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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Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
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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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