Bill W. Quotes

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• Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
• In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
• 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…
• 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…
• I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat…
• 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…
• Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
• 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.
• Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift…
• More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
• Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of…
• Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can…
• Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand…
• No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
• Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
• Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
• 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…
• 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…
• In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
• It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership.…

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