In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is. Bill Wilson
Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain. Bill Wilson
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress. Bill Wilson
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics, each identifying with and transmitting his experience to the next — chain style. If each sufferer were to carry the news of the scientific hopelessness of alcoholism to each new prospect, he might be able to lay every newcomer wide open to a transforming spiritual experience. This concept proved to be the foundation of such success as Alcoholics Anonymous has since achieved. Bill Wilson
But for every man who drinks others are involved – the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away. Bill Wilson
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart. Bill Wilson
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher. Bill Wilson