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““To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.””

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“Acceptance is the answer to all my problemskey to all my problems today.When I am distrubed, it is because I find some person, place,…

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“But in the light of the new understanding that I have found in A.A., I have been able to interpret that defeat and that failure and that shame as seeds of victory. Because it was only through feeling defeat and feeling failure, the inability to cope with my life and with alcohol, that I was able to surrender and accept…

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“I actually wanted a drink, besides feeling that I had to have a drink.”

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“Dishonest thinking, prejudice, ego, antagonism toward anyone and everyone who dares to cross him, vanity, and a critical attitude are character defects that gradually…

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“Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.”

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“...one of the primary differences between alcoholics and nonalcoholics is that nonalcoholics change their behavior to meet their goals and alcoholics change their goals…

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