25 result(s) for The Big Book Quotes.
"God either is or He isn't. What was our choice to be?"
"Resentment is the 'number one' offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else."
"Faith without works is dead."
"We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful."
"Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone. The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house."
"We are average Americans."
"An illness of this sort – and we have come to believe it an illness – seems to be a manifestation, in part, of an illness."
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"We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection."
"It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness."
"For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead."
"We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people"
"Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves."
"We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us."
"And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation – some fact of my life – unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment."
"the feeling of being at ease and comfortable with other human beings."
"We aren't a glum lot."
"Practical experience shows that nothing will so surely insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail."
"We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it."
"Though our decision was a desperate one, such decisions have to be made by countless alcoholics."
"So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so."
"We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking."
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"We have entered the world of the Spirit."
"God never asks me anything; He only makes suggestions."
"We asked ourselves this: Are we going to make liquor the arbiter of our lives or are we going to dethrone it?"
"His human resources first dried up, and then he began to fail spiritually."
