11th Step

“Our hope is that when this chip of a book is launched on the world tide of alcoholism, defeated drinkers will seize upon it, to follow its suggestions."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, A Vision For You, pg. 153~

“Resentment is the 'number one' offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, How It Works, pg. 64~

"...with us, to drink is to die."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, How It Works, pg. 66~

“When it will serve any good purpose, we are willing to announce our convictions with tact and common sense.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, Into Action, Pg. 77~

“Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, There Is A Solution, Pg. 64~

“We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but it's application presented difficulties beyond our conception. What with our ultra-modern standards, our scientific approach to everything, we are perhaps not well equipped to apply the powers of good that lie outside our synthetic knowledge."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, The Doctor's Opinion, Pg. xxvii~

“That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is how we react--so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, More about Alcoholism Pg. 84-85~

"We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 25~

“Job or no job, wife or no wife, we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 98~

"The minute we put our work on a service plane, the alcoholic commences to rely upon our assistance rather than upon God. He clamors for this or that, claiming he cannot master alcohol until his material needs are cared for. Nonsense. Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth…”

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 98~