"Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be on other questions. In this respect alcohol was a great persuader. It finally beat us into a state of reasonableness. Sometimes this was a tedious process; we hope no one else will be prejudiced for as long as some of us were."
Page 48, We Agnostics

12 & 12:

"Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation. Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded to conviction and as willing to listen as the dying can be."
Page 24, Step One

" '...all you really need is a truly open mind. Just resign from the debating society and quit bothering yourself with such deep questions as whether it was the hen or the egg that came first. Again I say, all you need is the open mind.'

"Time after time, my instructors held up to me the basic principle of all scientific progress: search and research, again and again, always with the open mind.

" 'Then I woke up. I had to admit that A.A, showed results, prodigious results. I saw that my attitude regarding these had been anything but scientific. It wasn't A.A, that had the closed mind, it was me.' " [Fictional sponsor to a fictional newcomer]
Page 26, Step Two

"True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A, meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him."
Page 33, Step Two

"If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness."
Page 68, Step Six

Related:

"We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God."
Page 46, We Agnostics

"Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. At the start this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious contact with God as we understood him."
Page 47, We Agnostics

"Besides a seeming inability to accept much on faith, we often found ourselves handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness and unreasoning prejudice."
Page 47-48, We Agnostics

"We, who have travelled this dubious path, beg you to lay aside prejudice, even against organized religion. We have learned that whatever the human frailties of various faiths may be, those faiths have given purpose and direction to millions. People of faith have a logical idea idea of what life is all about. Actually, we used to have no reasonable conception whatever."
Page 49, We Agnostics

"We talked of intolerance, while we were intolerant ourselves. We missed the reality and beauty of the forest because we were diverted by the ugliness of some its trees. We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair hearing."
Page 50, We Agnostics

"In the realm of the material, men's minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of fixed ideas. Some of the contemporaries of Columbus thought a round earth preposterous. Others came near putting Galileo to death for his astronomical heresies.

"We asked ourselves this: Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients were about the realm of the material?"
Page 51, We Agnostics

"Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does not work for something new which does?

"We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view."
Page 52, We Agnostics

“If our testimony helps sweep away prejudice, enables you to think honestly, encourages you to search diligently within yourself, then, if you wish, you can join us on the Broad highway. With this attitude you cannot fail.”
Page 55, We Agnostics

12 & 12:

"Consider next the plight of those who once had faith, but have lost it. There will be those who have drifted into indifference, those filled with self-sufficiency who have cut themselves off, those who have become prejudiced against religion, and those who are downright defiant because God has failed to fulfill their demands...

"The roadblocks of indifference, fancied self-sufficiency, prejudice, and defiance often prove more solid and formidable for these people than any erected by the unconvinced agnostic or even the militant atheist."
Page 28, Step Two