"FOR MOST normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, Page 151~

“I admitted for the first time that of myself I was nothing; that without God I was lost. I ruthlessly faced my sins and became willing to have my new-found Friend take them away, root and branch. I have not had a drink since."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill’s Story, Page 13~

"There I humbly offered myself to God, as I then understood Him, to do with me as He would. I place myself unreservedly under His care and direction.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill’s Story, Page 13~

"The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, Page 30~

"These men had found something brand new in life. Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they would remain sober, that motive became secondary. It was transcended by the happiness they found in giving themselves for others."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 159~

If we are not sorry, and our conduct continues to harm others, we are quite sure to drink. We are not theorizing. These are facts out of our experience. - Pg. 70 - How It Works

"Faith without works is dead."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, Page 76~

"Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends, this is an experience you must not miss."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 89~

"We have begun to comprehend their futility and their fatality. We have commenced to see their terrible destructiveness. We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, Pg. 70~

"Do not be discouraged if your prospect does not respond at once. Search out another alcoholic and try again. You are sure to find someone desperate enough to accept with eagerness what you offer.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 96