Came to Believe Quotes

“still know the same inner tranquility that comes with forgiveness of self”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“Oh God, did You desert me? Or did I desert You?”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“The singular thing that is spirituality cannot be given to a fellow- man by word of mouth. If every man is to have it, then every man must earn it, in his own way, by his own hand, stamped by the seal of himself, in his own individual right”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“It’s patience in the face of stupidity. It’s feeling that you want to knock somebody’s head off—and walking away instead. It’s when you’re down past your last dime, and you know you still have something that money can’t buy.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“It’s looking at something that superficially is ugly, but radiates beauty.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“It’s the awareness that survival is a savage fight between you and yourself. It’s a magnetic pull toward those who are down and out. It’s knowing that even the bad times are good.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“It’s peace of mind in the face of adversity. It’s a keen and sharpened desire for survival.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“With the gift of serenity, I am ready and willing to accept what God permits to happen to me; with the gift of courage, to take action to change the things I can for the good of myself and others. The gift of wisdom has been given to me so that in personal relationships I may act intelligently and with love or, as it has also been expressed, with competence and compassion. Now I am trying to grasp the idea of living “inside out.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“By accepting this sobriety gratefully, as a gift, and using it willingly, I have become aware of other gifts available to me as a human being. To get the benefits, I need only ask and then use. This is the crux of the program and the crux of living: acceptance and action.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“The simple contrast between active alcoholism and active sobriety has helped me to seek, to listen, and to apply the good principles of living,”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“when I consciously live in the real world (sanity), each good day helps to counterbalance my past.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“I learned in the Fellowship that if others could accept me and love me as I was, then I should love myself as I was—not for what I was, but for what I could become. So I have learned a little about my mind and about my will and about my emotions and passions.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“I was not only released from the compulsion to drink; I was guided toward a compulsion to live!”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous

“Even the first half of the First Step, “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol,” is a spiritual experience. An A.A. member needs more than physical capabilities; he needs the use of his full faculties as a human being to hear the message, to think about it, to review the effects of the past, to realize, to admit, and to accept. These processes are activities of the mind, which is part of the spirit.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Came to Believe: Finding our own spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous