The newcomer was adamant, he told the group, “I am an atheist. There is no god. You cannot prove that a god exists.” The old-timer told him, “Leave yourself some wiggle room, son. Remember, how you believed you’d never be able to stop drinking?”
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
— John Lennon
We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program.
— Page 568 Alcoholics Anonymous
