Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 5/5

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Power

"We could wish to be moral,
we could wish to be philosophically comforted,
in fact, we could will these things with all our might,
but the needed power wasn't there.
Our human resources,
as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient;
they failed utterly.
Lack of power, that was our dilemma.
We had to find a power by which we could live,
and it had to be a
Power greater than ourselves."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 45

Thought to Consider . . .

Willpower ... our will-ingness to use a Higher Power.

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FAITH
For An Instant Trust Him

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Destiny
"A Vision For You"
"Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny."

2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 164

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"Some drinkers have excuses with which they are satisfied part of the
time. But in their hearts they really do not know why they do it.
Once this malady has a real hold, they are a baffled lot. There is
the obsession that somehow, someday, they will beat the game. But
they often suspect they are down for the count."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 23~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Look Beyond the Horizon

My workshop stands on a hill back of our home. Looking over the valley, I see the village community house where our local group meets. Beyond the circle of my horizon lies the whole world of A.A.
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The unity of A.A. is the most cherished quality our Society has. Our lives, the lives of all to come, depend squarely upon it. Without unity, the heart of A.A. would cease to beat; our world arteries would no longer carry the life-giving grace of God.

1. A.A. TODAY, P. 7
2. TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 129

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Member Submitted Quote



Recovery is like riding a unicycle, there's not much coasting! ( Eric )

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12 x 12 Quote

"We also fall into another similar temptation. We form ideas as to
what we think God's will is for other people. We say to
ourselves, 'This one ought to be cured of his fatal malady,' or 'That
one ought to be relieved of his emotional pain,' and we pray for
these specific things. Such prayers, of course, are fundamentally
good acts, but often they are based upon a supposition that we know
God's will for the person for whom we pray. This means that side by
side with an earnest prayer there can be a certain amount of
presumption and conceit in us. It is AA's experience that
particularly in these cases we ought to pray that God's will,
whatever it is, be done for others as well as for ourselves." (Twelve
and Twelve, Step Eleven, pg. 104)