Nevertheless, I still thought I could control the situation, and there were periods of sobriety which renewed my wife's hope.

Understanding myself now, I fared forth in high hope.

He frankly admitted and believed that for him there was no hope.

Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope.

He may bring new hope and new courage to many a priest, minister, or rabbi, who gives his all to minister to our troubled world.

Next came the expression of an aspiration and a hope for himself.

This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's telling him that while his religious convictions were very good, in his case they did not spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.

Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing."

We are delighted with this dependence; our main hope is that nothing will ever cut off the supply of current.

Our hope is that when this chip of a book is launched on the world tide of alcoholism, defeated drinkers will seize upon it, to follow its suggestions.

But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave.

We believe and hope it contains all you will need to begin.

We hope it strikes home to thousands like him.

Then he asked for the grace to bring love, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, and joy to every human being he could.

I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before.

Sometimes this was a tedious process; we hope no one else will be prejudiced for as long as some of us were.

We hope no one will consider these self-revealing accounts in bad taste.

This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.

If that degree of humility could enable us to find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly have.

Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he escapes his own difficulties.

We hope our suggestions will help you plug up this sometimes serious leak.

Many times we talk to a new man and watch his hope rise as we discuss his alcoholic problems and explain our fellowship.

Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous will help the public to a better realization of the gravity of the alcoholic problem, but we shall be of little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.

Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.

Some day we hope that every alcoholic who journeys will find a Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at his destination.

Our earliest printing voiced the hope "that every alcoholic who journeys will find the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at his destination.

"Lord, make me a channel of thy peace -- that where there is hatred, I may bring love -- that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness -- that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -- that where there is error, I may bring truth -- that where there is doubt, I may bring faith -- that where there is despair, I may bring hope -- that where there are shadows, I may bring light -- that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me"; or, more important, "Yes, I've felt like that"; or, most important, "Yes, I believe this program can work for me too."

We hope the doctor will tell the patient the truth about his condition, whatever that happens to be.

For them, we hope these pages will prove so convincing that no further authentication will be necessary.

We hope they'll go to the grave with us.

We hope this book has answered some of them.

We hope this volume will inform and comfort those who are, or who may be affected.

To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.

We hope we have made clear the distinction between the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic.

At first some of us tried to avoid the issue, hoping against hope we were not true alcoholics.

In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.

His alcoholic problem was so complex, and his depression so great, that we felt his only hope would be through what we then called "moral psychology," and we doubted if even that would have any effect.

We hope you are convinced now that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him.

As our work spreads and our numbers increase, we hope your employees may be put in personal contact with some of us.