spiritual recovery Quotes

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one.

There are no unsavable souls.

The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

If you will come back and make that pledge, God will heal your heart tonight.

What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing.

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.