Top 100 Prentiss Quotes

#1. It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.

Chris Prentiss

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#2. If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.

Chris Prentiss

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#3. Darren stayed way past visiting hours and Healer Prentiss, not swayed by Darren's good looks, kicked them both out.

Chanda Hahn

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#4. The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware.

Chris Prentiss

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#5. I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

Shelby Foote

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#6. You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.

Chris Prentiss

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#7. The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.

Chris Prentiss

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#8. I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

Elizabeth Prentiss

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#9. It will not hurt either of you as long as you have health. And if that fails, God will provide for you in some way," said her father. "He is rich, and could give you more now if He saw that it would be good for you. Never forget that.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#10. When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

Chris Prentiss

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#11. You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

Chris Prentiss

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#12. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

Chris Prentiss

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#13. Once an event has taken place, since you cannot alter the past, all that is left to you is your response.

Chris Prentiss

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#14. We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.

Chris Prentiss

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#15. On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother ... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are!

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#16. When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.

Chris Prentiss

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#17. You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea.

Chris Prentiss

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#18. I am amazed at the patience of my blessed Master and Teacher, but how I love His school!

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#19. Writing is a pleasure but family is a blessing!

Prentiss Grant

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#20. How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.

Chris Prentiss

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#21. What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all.

Chris Prentiss

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#22. Choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.

Chris Prentiss

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#23. Go home and say to yourself, 'I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me!

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#24. By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.

Chris Prentiss

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#25. If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it.

Chris Prentiss

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#26. Once you look at your problems as "workout situations," they take on a whole new aspect.

Chris Prentiss

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#27. Duty looks more repelling at a distance than when fairly faced and met.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#28. No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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#29. Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing.

Chris Prentiss

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#30. The reality is that the quality of your relationship depends mainly on one thing: you.

Chris Prentiss

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#31. Abbey, with a cheap beer nestled in his hand, says simply, "Desolation in my heart.

Sean Prentiss

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#32. The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

Chris Prentiss

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#33. Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

Chris Prentiss

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#34. You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.

Chris Prentiss

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#35. We only know ourselves and what we really are when the force of circumstances brings us out.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#36. Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

Chris Prentiss

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#37. Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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#38. The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.

Chris Prentiss

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#39. When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.

Chris Prentiss

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#40. Most of the time, we respond to life without taking a moment

Chris Prentiss

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#41. When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

Chris Prentiss

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#42. You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.

Chris Prentiss

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#43. The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

Prentiss Quotes #593428
#44. The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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#45. Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

Chris Prentiss

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#46. If you have experienced recurring situations in your life that are unpleasant, know that there is something you are supposed to be getting from those situations that you have not been getting and that the moment you get it, those situations will pass out of your life, not to return.

Chris Prentiss

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#47. At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

Chris Prentiss

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#48. What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.

Chris Prentiss

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#49. Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.

Chris Prentiss

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#50. Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.

Chris Prentiss

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#51. You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

Chris Prentiss

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#52. I see that if I would be happy in God, I must give Him all. And there is a wicked reluctance to do that. I want Him
but I want to have my own way, too. I want to walk humbly and softly before Him and I want to go where I shall be admired and applauded. To whom shall I yield? To God? Or to myself?

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#53. Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.

Chris Prentiss

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#54. I feel discouraged and disappointed. I certainly thought that if God really loved me, and I really loved Him, I should find myself growing better day by day. But I am not improved in the least.

Elisabeth Prentiss

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#55. It was as if the pearly gates had just opened and God had walked out and said, "Pax, my son, I'm going to free you from your addiction. I'm going to let you see why you've been using heroin and all the other drugs for the past ten years.

Pax Prentiss

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#56. Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.

Chris Prentiss

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#57. If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship.

Chris Prentiss

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#58. Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#59. We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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#60. Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.

Chris Prentiss

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#61. If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

Chris Prentiss

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#62. I began asking myself just what my high was about. What did I do when I was high that I didn't do when I was sober? What was wrong that heroin fixed?

Pax Prentiss

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#63. The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

Chris Prentiss

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#64. If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.

Chris Prentiss

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#65. The Universe doesn't make mistakes.

Chris Prentiss

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#66. I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all medicating our fears and our pain!

Pax Prentiss

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#67. When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: "This is for my benefit.

Chris Prentiss

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#68. When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.

Chris Prentiss

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#69. Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.

Chris Prentiss

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#70. If the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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#71. You create your future moment by moment.

Chris Prentiss

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#72. Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

Chris Prentiss

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#73. Change starts with awareness.

Chris Prentiss

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#74. Like most men with what's known as "house-help," Pimli Prentiss had no clear sense of his employees as creatures with goals, ambitions, and feelings -

Stephen King

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#75. Can you see that meetings and centers that don't address the real causes of dependency are almost certain to be little or no help? They actually can be very damaging.

Chris Prentiss

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#76. The way to heal your relationship is to look for the underlying conditions in yourself and in your partner that have caused your relationship to go off track and then to seek out the guidance you need to heal yourself. The Laws of Love will give you that guidance.

Chris Prentiss

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#77. A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive.

Chris Prentiss

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#78. O happy life! life hid with Christ in God! So making me At home and by the wayside and abroad, Alone with Thee.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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#79. You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

Chris Prentiss

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#80. The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

Chris Prentiss

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#81. It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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#82. ... all decisions and actions that will affect your relationship must be made by answering this single question: Will the action I am considering have a negative impact on my relationship? If the answer is yes, don't do it.

Chris Prentiss

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#83. The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you stronger and wiser.

Chris Prentiss

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#84. The relationship must come first or it will not last.

Chris Prentiss

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#85. Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.

Chris Prentiss

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#86. What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

Chris Prentiss

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#87. Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.

Chris Prentiss

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#88. One must either stop reading the Bible altogether, or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy pleasant things one likes to do.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#89. To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

Chris Prentiss

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#90. Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him
this is all!

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#91. You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

Chris Prentiss

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#92. But if God does not give us children, knowing as He does how thankful we should be for them, it is surely because He has some good reason for it. Perhaps there are now in the world some fatherless and motherless little ones that He is saving for us till we can afford to take them

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

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#93. The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.

Chris Prentiss

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#94. Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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#95. The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one turned into.

Chris Prentiss

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#96. Trustworthy partners always think first before they do anything that may affect either the reputation or well-being of each other.

Chris Prentiss

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#97. People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch.

Chris Prentiss

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#98. You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.

Chris Prentiss

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#99. Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or "bad for us." The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination- we do.

Chris Prentiss

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#100. The Universe continues to be perfect at every moment and never permits even the first imperfect event to occur. It goes from perfect to perfect to perfect.

Chris Prentiss

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