The Fix Quotes

“Jesus,” I said, “I need to let go of my old ideas about who you are before I can open myself up to receiving new ones from you.”
― Ian Morgan Cron, The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between

“The problem is they tend to breeze by these Steps, presuming, I already completed these Steps when I gave my life to Christ.”
― Ian Morgan Cron, The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between

“Ironically, Step Two and the notion of “coming to believe” is often harder for Christians to complete than for spiritual seekers (as are Steps One”
― Ian Morgan Cron, The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between

“Here is the truth that Step One requires us to reconcile with: we need God, and we need a God-initiated solution to heal the wounds that are driving our addictions and all-too-predictable self-sabotaging behaviors.”
― Ian Morgan Cron, The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between

“If we don’t feel at home in this world, if we compulsively keep doing stuff that hurts us and others to numb the pain of the present and the past, then we do not have the power to fix ourselves.”
― Ian Morgan Cron, The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between

“We can know we are in the grip of an attachment when we use it “in excess of our needs, for purposes other than that for which they were intended, as ends rather than as means to a legitimate end.”
― Ian Morgan Cron, The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between

“none of us has only one addiction; we are all boiling cauldrons of addictions.”
― Ian Morgan Cron, The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between

“By this point, I was exhausted from being chased around the paddock by the Four Horsemen of addiction—Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, and Despair—to do whatever it took to get well. God bless him, Dan agreed to see me again and took me to my first Twelve-Step recovery meeting.”
― Ian Morgan Cron, The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between