Here are 25 quotes from the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book with the chapter and page numbers:
1. “Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.”
– Chapter: *How It Works*
– Page: 58
2. “We are people who normally would not mix.”
– Chapter: *There Is a Solution*
– Page: 17
3. “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.”
– Chapter: *How It Works*
– Page: 59
4. “There is a solution.”
– Chapter: *There Is a Solution*
– Page: 25
5. “God could and would if He were sought.”
– Chapter: *We Agnostics*
– Page: 60
6. “Half measures availed us nothing.”
– Chapter: *How It Works*
– Page: 59
7. “We stood at the turning point.”
– Chapter: *How It Works*
– Page: 59
8. “When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God.”
– Chapter: *We Agnostics*
– Page: 52
9. “We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.”
– Chapter: *Into Action*
– Page: 83
10. “Fear is an evil and corroding thread; the fabric of our existence is shot through with it.”
– Chapter: *How It Works*
– Page: 67
11. “Faith without works is dead.”
– Chapter: *Into Action*
– Page: 88
12. “God is either everything or He is nothing. God either is or He isn’t.”
– Chapter: *We Agnostics*
– Page: 53
13. “We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free.”
– Chapter: *The Family Afterwards*
– Page: 133
14. “Resentment is the ‘number one’ offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else.”
– Chapter: *How It Works*
– Page: 64
15. “We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines.”
– Chapter: *How It Works*
– Page: 60
16. “No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.”
– Chapter: *Into Action*
– Page: 84
17. “Practical experience shows that nothing will so much ensure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics.”
– Chapter: *Working with Others*
– Page: 89
18. “If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.”
– Chapter: *Into Action*
– Page: 83
19. “Selfishness—self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.”
– Chapter: *How It Works*
– Page: 62
20. “The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others.”
– Chapter: *Into Action*
– Page: 82
21. “The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences.”
– Chapter: *There Is a Solution*
– Page: 25
22. “The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.”
– Chapter: *Into Action*
– Page: 83
23. “Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives. (b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism. (c) That God could and would if He were sought.”
– Chapter: *How It Works*
– Page: 60
24. “We alcoholics are undisciplined. So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined.”
– Chapter: *Into Action*
– Page: 88
25. “It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.”
– Chapter: *Into Action*
– Page: 90
