 Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society. |
| Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. |
| I was taught that pain is bad. |
| If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom. |
| Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. |
| A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling. |
| What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual. |
| The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked. |
| The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself. |
| You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done. |
| I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain. |
| We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough. |
| No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady. |
| Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us. |
| Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded. |
| I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God. |
| A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them. |
| We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have. |
| We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people. |
| I am too old to think. |
