“Yet, Step 2 and AA spirituality is about nothing if it isn’t about faith in God. Many good reasons exist why AA makes a distinction between religion and spirituality, but a denial of God is not one of them. – p. 127” — Ray A Copy Share Image
“The truth is that we were so spiritually and morally bankrupt that we could not even see some of those lines: we stepped over them blindly. Other times we saw the lines alright, but we wanted to cross them. Alcohol gave us the false courage to do it and numbed our conscience as we did. Alcohol was the great enabler,… — Ray A Copy Share
“To know that we are not God, to know that there is a God, and to know that God, these are the Steps in… — Ray A Copy Share Image
“We arrive in the rooms tangled up in a web of complexity and confusion. Our lives are unmanageable because our minds are unmanageable.” – p. 134” — Ray A Copy Share Image
“The essence of humility in Step 3 is acknowledging and accepting our dependence on God. The essence of faith is trusting God. – p. 167” — Ray A Copy Share Image
“Yet, Step 2 and AA spirituality is about nothing if it isn’t about faith in God. Many good reasons exist why AA makes a… — Ray A Copy Share Image
“Adam and Eve had first-hand empirical evidence of God’s existence. He walked in the Garden with them. Their problem was that God told them… — Ray A Copy Share Image
“Religion became an end, rather than a means, a substitute for God. Until alcoholism intervened and forced the issue: God, or religion? – p. 125” — Ray A Copy Share Image
“When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a… — Ray A Copy Share Image
“Saying that 'I am a grateful alcoholic' will then reflect the truth about who we have become in our person, having understood deeply and… — Ray A Copy Share Image
“AA is a spiritual program and Step 3 is a quintessentially spiritual Step. It is the ultimate anti-self Step. Thus, in a very real… — Ray A Copy Share Image
“In AA we don’t come to God through theology but through experience, mostly of the humbling and humiliating variety, often reluctantly, and sometimes even… — Ray A Copy Share Image
“Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three:… — Ray A Copy Share Image
