A.A.’s Rev. Sam Shoemaker: God is God.
Self is not God
Dick B.
Copyright 2013
Anonymous. All rights reserved
Direct quotes from
the “co-founder of A.A.,” Rev. Shoemaker, found in Dick B., New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker,
and A.A., Pittsburgh Edition:
“God is,” 153
“God is God,” 153
“A new kind of life, which trusts God, not self,” 155
“You will
never find God by reading big books about Him,” 155
“I’ve spent a lot of time on this initial finding of God
because I am convinced that there are thousands of people in the churches and
out of them for whom God is an aspiration, and not a fact,” 155
“God-sufficiency,” 156
“Self-sufficiency and the independence of God—that is, for
the Christian, the major sin of all,” 156
“God will come through to you and make Himself known,” 157
“Selfishness . . . . self-centeredness,” 158
“Self-pity, self-will, self-centeredness,” 158
“Self-surrender has always been and must always be regarded
as the vital turning point of religious life,” 160
“let us rely much on God,” 160
“Let go! Abandon yourself to Him. Say to Him, ‘Not my will
but Thine be done,” 160
“Abandon yourself to Him,” 161
‘O Lord, manage me, for I cannot manage myself,” 161.
“God is and is a Rewarder of them that seek Him,” 161
“Self-will seems the blackest sin of all,” 162
“For most men, the world is centered in self, which is
misery,” 162.
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