A.A.'s Own Quotes of Cofounder Dr. Bob              Reply to this Comment

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A.A.’s Own History Quoting Cofounder Dr. Bob Dick B. August, 2008 1. “Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!” Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., 181. 2. “In early A.A. days, . . . our stories didn’t amount to anything to speak of. When we started in on Bill D., we had no Twelve Steps, either; we had no Traditions. But we were convinced that the answer to our problems was in the Good Book.” The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches Their Last Major Talks, 13. 3. “I had refreshed my memory of the Good Book, and I had had excellent training in that as a youngster.” The Co-Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, 11-12. 4. “To some of us older ones, the parts that we found absolutely essential were the Sermon on the Mount, the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, and the Book of James.” The Co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, 13. 5. “I didn’t write the Twelve Steps. I had nothing to do with the writing of them. . . . We already had the basic ideas, though not in terse and tangible form. We got them, as I said, as a result of our study of the Good Book.” The Co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, 14. 6. “If someone asked him a question about the program, his usual response was: ‘What does it say in the Good Book?’” DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, 144. All of the foregoing quotes can be found in A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature published by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. And usually available for purchase at the Literature Table in meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. For specifics, see "Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His Excellent Training in the Good Book as a Youngster in Vermont. ISBN 1885803856 (2008)