Acceptance Quote by Bill W

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics, each identifying with and transmitting his experience to…

— Bill Wilson

“AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to…

— Chris Prentiss

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

— Mercedes McCambridge

“AA has managed to survive, in part, because members who become and remain sober speak and write about it regularly. This is no accident:…

— Lance Dodes

“We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book to everyone.…

— Richard Rohr

“In Alcoholics Anonymous they say you need to have faith in a higher power to help you overcome your addictions. You can’t do it…

— Brad Warner

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my…

— Chelsea Handler

To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come…

— Deepak Chopra

I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.

— Jackie Gleason

“Alcoholics Anonymous was proclaimed the correct treatment for alcoholism over seventy-five years ago despite the absence of any scientific evidence of the approach’s efficacy,…

— Lance Dodes

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion…

— Jason Isbell

“For an organization that has expressly denied religious standing and publicly claims a secular—even scientific—approach, it is curious that AA retains these explicit references…

— Lance Dodes