As Bill Sees It Quotes

“Life takes on new meaning in A.A. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends—this is an experience not to be missed.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“we shall have to settle, respecting most of our problems, for a very gradual progress, punctuated sometimes by heavy setbacks.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“In short, we chose to ‘become willing,’ and no better choice did we ever make.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him. To us, the realm of spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“Los Resultados de la Oración”
― A.A. World Services Inc., Como Lo Ve Bill

“Tengo excelentes motivos para creer que los momentos de percepción pueden irse acumulando para construir toda una vida de serenidad espiritual. Las raíces de la realidad, reemplazando la maleza neurótica, nos agarrarán firmemente a pesar del fuerte viento de las fuerzas que nos destruirían o que podríamos utilizar para destruirnos a nosotros mismos.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., Como Lo Ve Bill

“Even when we have tried hard and failed, we may chalk that up as one of the greatest credits of all.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain. Then we shall need to find both the courage and the grace to deal constructively with whatever fears remain”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“To the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman, many A.A.’s can say, “Yes, we were like you—far too smart for our own good. We loved to have people call us precocious. We used our education to blow ourselves up into prideful balloons, though we were careful to hide this from others. Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our brain power alone.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“My own formula along this line runs as follows: First, think through every situation pro and con, praying meanwhile that I be not influenced by ego considerations. Affirm that I would like to do God’s will.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes,”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“Se le ha concedido un don que le produce un nuevo estado de conciencia y una nueva forma de ser. Se encuentra en un camino que le indica que le llevará a un destino seguro, que la vida no es un callejón sin salida, ni algo que habrá de soportar o dominar. Ha sido realmente transformado, porque se ha aferrado a una fuente de fortaleza”
― A.A. World Services Inc., Como Lo Ve Bill

“True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“The most heated bit of letter-writing can be a wonderful safety valve—providing the wastebasket is somewhere nearby.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“A spot-check inventory taken in the midst of disturbances can be of very great help in quieting stormy emotions. Today’s spot check finds its chief application to situations which arise in each day’s march. The consideration of long-standing difficulties had better be postponed, when possible, to times deliberately set aside for that purpose.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“In the radiance of this prayer we see that defeat, rightly accepted, need be no disaster.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“Blinded by prideful self-confidence, we were apt to play the big shot.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with God.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“The perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of self-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or thought. Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“Pride is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“It is not always the quantity of good things that you do, it is also the quality that counts.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision, action, and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“Una parte demasiado grande de mi vida ha estado dedicada a pensar en los defectos de otra gente. Esta es una forma sutil y perversa de la satisfacción de sí mismo, que nos permite seguir cómodamente inconscientes de nuestros propios defectos. Demasiado a menudo se nos oye decir: ‘Si no fuera por él (o ella), qué feliz sería”
― A.A. World Services Inc., Como Lo Ve Bill

“Most of us would declare that without a fearless admission of our defects to another human being, we could not stay sober. It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are willing to try this.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It

“El perverso deseo de ocultar un motivo malo por debajo de otro bueno, se ve en todos los asuntos humanos de toda índole. Esta clase de hipocresía sutil y solapada puede ser el motivo oculto de la acción o pensamiento más insignificante. Aprender, día tras día, a identificar, reconocer y corregir estos defectos constituye la esencia de la formación del carácter y del buen vivir. ‹‹ ‹‹ ‹‹ ›› ›› ›› El engaño a los demás casi siempre tiene sus raíces en el engaño a nosotros mismos. ‹‹ ‹‹ ‹‹ ›› ›› ›› Por alguna razón, el estar a solas con Dios no parece ser tan embarazoso como sincerarnos ante otro ser humano. Hasta que no nos sentemos para hablar francamente de lo que por tanto tiempo hemos ocultado, nuestra disposición para poner nuestra casa en orden seguirá siendo un asunto teórico. El ser sinceros con otra persona nos confirma que hemos sido sinceros con nosotros mismos y con Dios.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., Como Lo Ve Bill

“El perverso deseo de ocultar un motivo malo por debajo de otro bueno, se ve en todos los asuntos humanos de toda índole. Esta clase de hipocresía sutil y solapada puede ser el motivo oculto de la acción o pensamiento más insignificante. Aprender, día tras día, a identificar, reconocer y corregir estos defectos constituye la esencia de la formación del carácter y del buen vivir. ‹‹ ‹‹ ‹‹ ›› ›› ›› El engaño a los demás casi siempre tiene sus raíces en el engaño a nosotros mismos.”
― A.A. World Services Inc., Como Lo Ve Bill

“How did my selfish pursuit of the sex relation damage other people and me? What people were hurt, and how badly? Just how did I react at the time?”
― A.A. World Services Inc., As Bill Sees It