The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
Pain is the touchstone of all growth
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics. 
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart. 
The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development. 
God is either everything, or He is nothing. 
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear. 
Step One is about recognizing our brokenness. 
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress. 
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. 
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it 
The good is the enemy of the best. 
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher. 