In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.