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“Harvard historian Ernest Kurtz wrote the definitive history of AA. He called his book Not-God because the basic problem addicted people have is that they think they’re God. This would also be the basic problem non-addicted people have, if there were such a thing. The truth is that we are all overly attached to something—starting with our egos—that we are powerless to control. We all need to be freed.”

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“Over the years, this observation has been made by too many Christian writers and preachers to count. One book even has this question as a title: Why Can’t the Church Be More like an AA Meeting? The short answer is that it can, as long as the people who attend it are willing to be more like alcoholics. Too desperate to hide, too humbled to judge; too weak to solo, too needy to skip.”