In AA we don’t come to God through theology but through experience, mostly of the humbling and humiliating variety, often reluctantly, and sometimes even kicking and screaming. — p. 179
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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Unknown
Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means. The fact that man, for...
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Thomas A. Edison
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
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Peter Kreeft
Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.
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Benjamin Franklin Wade
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Alan W. Watts
More Quotes By Ray A.
Adam and Eve had first-hand empirical evidence of God’s existence. He walked in the Garden with them. Their problem was that God told them they could not eat of a certain tree. — p. 113
In AA we don’t come to God through theology but through experience, mostly of the humbling and humiliating variety, often reluctantly, and sometimes even kicking and screaming. — p. 179
When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a fraud, and a phony. That’s because we were. — p. 74
The essence of humility in Step 3 is acknowledging and accepting our dependence on God. The essence of faith is trusting God. — p. 167
Saying that 'I am a grateful alcoholic' will then reflect the truth about who we have become in our person, having understood deeply and intimately that God in his grace can turn any evil, any pain we have suffered or inflicted, to good purpose. —...