It is with the deepest feeling that I here cast up AA's debt to the clergy:
without their works for us, AA could never have been born;
nearly every principle that we use comes from them.
Their example, their faith, and their beliefs in some part,
we have appropriated and made our own.
Almost literally, we AA's owe them our lives, our fortunes,
and such salvation as each of us has found.
Surely, this is an infinite debt!
- Bill W., September 1957.
I have learned how a heart full of gratitude feels.
H O P E = Heart Open; Please Enter.
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