Programming Quote by Ray A

There is only one basic desire that motivates the spiritual seeker-to make the experience of God, of divine bliss and joy, the center of…

— Douglas Bloch

“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

“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

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

— Bill W

“Steps Six and Seven are often brushed off, especially by the nonbeliever, because they seem to assume a direct relationship with a personal God.…

— Marya Hornbacher

“AA began as a nonprofessional attempt to grapple with the alcoholism of its founders. It arose and took its famous twelve steps directly from…

— Lance Dodes

“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

There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

— Nikki Sixx

“More than anything, AA offers a comforting veneer of actionable change: it is something you can do.”

— Lance Dodes

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to…

— Daniel Baldwin

AA is not for people who need it, its for people who want it.

— Anonymous

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

— Irvine Welsh