11th Step

"The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God’s universe."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 25~

"The age of miracles is still with us. Our own recovery proves that!"

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 153~

"Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics."

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

"...the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, rather than in his body."

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

"We realize that we have been giving you much direction and advice. We may have seemed to lecture. If that is so we are sorry, for we ourselves don't always care for people who lecture us. But what we have related is based upon experience, some of it painful. We had to learn these things the hard way. That is why we are anxious that you understand, and that you avoid these unnecessary difficulties." - Pg. 121 - To Wives

"Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your

existence lie ahead."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 152~

"The way you fellows put this spiritual stuff makes sense." - Pg. 159 - A Vision For You

We have three little mottoes which are apropos. Here they are:

First Things First

Live and Let Live

Easy Does It

"When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, Page 52~

".... Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all-every one? If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 76~