11th Step

“Hopelessness was written large on the man’s face as he replied, “Oh, but that’s no use. Nothing would fix me. I’m a goner. The last three times, I got drunk on the way home from here. I’m afraid to go out the door. I can’t understand it.” For an hour, the two friends told him about their drinking experiences. Over and over, he would say: “That’s me. That’s me. I drink like that.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 157~

“As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, Page 63~

"Alcoholism is a grievous and often fatal malady of the mind and body. We have found that these awful conditions invariably bring on the third phase of our malady. This is the sickness of the spirit; a sickness for which there must necessarily be a spiritual remedy.”

~Bill W., The Language of the Heart, p. 297~

“But life was not easy for the two friends. Plenty of difficulties presented themselves. Both saw that they must keep spiritually active.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 156~

“Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all. Rather vain of us, wasn't it.?” - ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 49~

“To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 44~

“Everyone became resigned to the certainty that I would have to be shut up somewhere, or would stumble along to a miserable end. How dark it is before the dawn!”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 8~

“We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals. This should be an entirely personal affair which each one decides for himself in the light of past associations, or his present choice.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 28~ ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 34~

"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."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 34~

“The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 66~