Practice These Principles and What Is the Oxford Group? Quotes

“In recovery, we try to take the opposite of our character defects/shortcomings and turn them into principles. For example, we work to change fear into faith, hate into love, egoism into humility, anxiety and worry into serenity, complacency into action, denial into acceptance, jealousy into trust, fantasizing into reality, selfishness into service, resentment into forgiveness, judgmentalism into tolerance, despair into hope, self-hate into self-respect, and loneliness into fellowship. Through this work we learn to understand the principles of our program.”
― Anonymous, Practice These Principles And What Is The Oxford Group

“The principles of Twelve Step recovery are the opposite of our character defects.”
― Anonymous, Practice These Principles And What Is The Oxford Group

“influence on the development of AA was substantial. As Bill Wilson wrote in Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, “The important thing is this: the early A.A. got its ideas of self-examination, acknowledgment of character defects, restitution for harm done, and working with others straight from the Oxford Groups.”
― Anonymous, Practice These Principles And What Is The Oxford Group