“Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.”
Foreword to the Second Edition

"The joy of living we really have, even under pressure and difficulty. I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere..."
Page 15, Bill's Story

“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

"We feel we are on the Broad Highway, walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe."
Page 75, Into Action, Step Five

"But sometimes you must start life anew. We know women who have done it. If such women adopt a spiritual way of life their road will be smoother."
Page 114, To Wives

“Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with your in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.

“May God bless you and keep you – until then.”
Page 164

12 & 12:

"Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility."
Page 59, Step Five

"We are obliged to choose between the pains of trying and the certain penalties of failing to do so. These initial steps along the road are taken grudgingly, yet we do take them."
Page 74, Step Seven

Related:

"Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last word , the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all. Rather vain of us, wasn't it?

"We, who have traveled this dubious path, beg you to lay aside prejudice, even against organized religion."
Big Book, Page 49, We agnostics

"Let families realize, as they start their journey, that all will not be fair weather. Each in his turn may be footsore and may straggle. There will be alluring shortcuts and by-paths down which they may wander and lose their way."
Big Book, Page 122-3, The Family Afterward

"High and low, rich and poor, these [your neighbors with drinking problems] are future fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous. Among them you will make lifelong friends. You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey."
Big Book, Page 152-3, A Vision For You

[Having had a spiritual awakening] “He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being. He has been set on a path which tells him that he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured and mastered.”
12 & 12, page 107, Step 12