“Those events that once made me feel ashamed and disgraced now allow me to share with others how to become a useful member of the human race.”
“Many of us felt that we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease forever. Yet we found it impossible. This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it – this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish.”
“I never suffer as much as when trying to avoid suffering”
“You can’t fix a broken tool with a broken tool”
If I weren’t alcoholic I would drink all day
“I have to hang with sober alcoholics because if God called me on the phone right now, I would hang up”
“Dear God,
Please set aside everything I think I know
About myself, this book, my disease, these steps,
and especially about you dear God
so that I might have an open mind And a new experience
with all these things.
Please help me to see the truth. “
“It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window”
“We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to
believe in a power greater than ourselves. We commenced to get results even though it was
impossible for any of us fully define or comprehend that power which is God.”
“Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go
absolutely.”