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Hell: Complete separation from both man and God. (Ecclesiastical dictionary)

 

Honesty gets us sober, tolerance keeps us sober. (Bill W.)

Humility is a state of mind that comes from a realistic and relatively accurate knowledge of ones abilities and limitations. (dictionary)

Humility is like underwear, it's necessary but it's indecent if it shows.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. (Stephen Grellet)

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle, I just wish He didn't trust me so much. (Mother Teresa)

I am what I am, naked before God - nothing more, nothing less.

I know that I'm not yet the person I can be, but I thank God I'm not the person I used to be.

I don't need your help today.... Love, God.

I didn't use drugs, drugs used me.

I need to get the cotton out of my ears and put it in my mouth.

I don't believe in miracles - I depend on them. (Ritchie A.)

I will selfishly go to any lengths to obtain, maintain and defend my sobriety so that through the action of this program I will grow to be unselfish. (Jeanne JT)

I can borrow trouble only at high interest rates.

I do God's work not God's job. (Clara S.)

I can do all things through God who strengthens me. (Bible)

I'm here to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

I'm starting to become what I see. (Johnny H.)

I've discovered a strange thing about people...they are going to be where they want to be. (Jack)

I've got some good news and some bad news for you:
The good news is that you're not in charge;
The bad news is that you're not in charge.

I've discovered that miracles are possible without my consent. (Cubby S.)

If I don't take a drink for 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 55 seconds I'm still just 5 seconds away from my next drunk! And each 24 hours that I don't take that drink, I am indeed somebody. (Wade)

If God is your co-pilot, SWITCH SEATS!

If you hang around a barbershop long enough, eventually you'll get a haircut.

If you hang around the barber shop ....eventually you will get a haircut

If I DON'T let go, I lose my grip.

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are. (Zen proverb)

If there is pain, something is not free that should be free. (Dick M.)

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

If there is a disturbance deep inside of me - if anything from the outside disturbs, distresses or presents a conflict in my life - there's something I should be doing that I'm not doing or there's something I'm doing that I shouldn't be doing. I sit down in my rocker until I figure it out with God. (Patsy R.)

If God is for me, who can be against me.

If your ass falls off, pick it up, put it in a paper bag, and carry it to a meeting.

If they're ready, you can't say anything wrong. If they're not ready, you can't say anything right.

If your spinning your wheels, try getting out of the driver's seat.

If you don't take a 4th, you'll soon pick up a 5th.

If you aren't a lion tamer, don't go into the lion's den.

If you keep doing what you're doing - you'll keep getting what you're getting. (Johnny H.)

If you want to make ends meet .... GET OFF YOURS! (Dr Kenneth McFarland)

If you feel guilty - stop doing what's making you feel guilty.

If you think you're happy, you are. If you think you're wise, you're not.

If you are not as close to God as you once were, who moved!

If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got.

If nothing changes, nothing changes.

If you pray for a Cadillac and God sends a jackass, ride it.

If nothing changes...nothing changes.

If ye have faith - nothing shall be impossible to you. (Bible)

If I have to think about something in order to act differently, then no real change has taken place yet. (Hugh Prather)

If you speak and act with pure thoughts - happiness follows you. (Buddha)

In AA, we are each becoming whole again. When we come together, something magical happens - we become holy. (me)

In AA, first we remove the anesthesia, then we operate.

In order to give up my defects of character, I must first give up the benefits of my defects of character. Twenty seconds of ecstasy isn't worth three weeks of guilt. (Sean A.)

In accepting and turning over my life and will to God - I also have to accept and turn over other's lives and wills to God. (me)

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Insanity: The seeming inability to learn from one's mistakes. (Dictionary)

Isolation is the dark room where we develop our 'negatives'.

It takes a passion to conquer a passion.

It's the first car of a train that kills you, not the caboose.

It's called ... On and On Anon

It's alcohol-ism, not -wasm.

Its easier to put on slippers than to try to carpet the world.

Keep in the solution - NOT in the problem.

Lead me from darkness to the light, lead me from ignorance, lead me from bondage to freedom, lead me from death to immortality. (Upanishads)

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. (Buddha)

Let go or get dragged.

Let us love you until you learn to love yourself.

Let God save your soul, ...we're here to save your ass!

Let go or be dragged.

Life is a millstone - YOU decide if it's going to grind you down or polish you up.

Life is not painful, it's my resistance to life that causes me the pain. (Jean A.)

Life is like an onion; you peel it one layer at a time; and sometimes you cry. (Carl Sandberg)

Living a good life is the greatest revenge.

Lord - if I cannot have what I want --- help me want what I have TODAY.

Love - acceptance without judgment (of yourself as well as others). (Jeanne JT)

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it allows you to look in more interesting places.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abe Lincoln)

My mind is out to get me.

My disease is an elephant. As long as I remember it's there, I won't get stepped on.

Nature abhors a vacuum - I say that God abhors a vacuum and can't abide a vacuum anywhere under heaven, however small. All you have to do is get empty of self and automatically, you're full of God. (Meister Eckhard)

Never confuse loneliness or lust for love. (me)

No matter where you go...there you are.

No God - No Peace; Know God - Know Peace.

No is a complete sentence. (Alanon)

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Nor can men and women of AA ever forget that only through suffering did they find enough humility to enter the portals of that new world. How privileged we are to understand so well the divine paradox that strength rises from weakness; that humiliation goes before resurrection; that pain is not only the price but the very touchstone of spiritual rebirth. (Bill W.)

Not only was I ignorant - I was ignorant that I was ignorant.

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (Shakespeare)

Now I can wake up and say, "Good morning, God!" instead of "Good God, it's morning!"

Now I can wake up and say, "Good morning, God!" rather than "Good God, it's morning!"

OK...get off the cross, we need the wood.

One day at a time.

Only God can fix what God has made. (Barbara P.)

Our defiance and grandiosity springs from a persisting infantile ego, characteristically filled with feelings of omnipotence, demands for direct gratification of wishes and a proneness to interpret frustration as evidence of rejection and lack of love. (Dr. Tiebout)

Our sickness is between our ears.

 

 

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