Joni Mitchell Quotes

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

Save me from this road I'm on, Jesus take the wheel.

Lot of my life is involved in the 12-step program and the church.

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.

Where there's dope, there's hope!

Jesus and spirituality can easily become therapies that merely help us cope with life. They can serve us if we chose Him over other service providers. We even talk about "making Jesus my personal Lord and Savior," as if we could make Him anything!

The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.