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... able and
exceedingly anxious to adopt any ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.163
The doctor proved to be
able and exceedingly anxious to adopt any workable method of handling the situation.
2.
... able and
persistent advocates.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
Another reason for the wide acceptance of A.A. was the ministration of
friends -- friends in medicine, religion, and the
press, together with innumerable others who became our able and persistent advocates.
3.
... able and
respected, was then nearing the ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
His call to the clergyman
led him presently to a certain resident of the town, who, though formerly able and respected, was then nearing
the nadir of alcoholic despair.
4.
... able and
willing to get well, little ...
BB
Working With Others, p.97
For the type of alcoholic
who is able and willing to get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted.
5.
... able example
and not upon vain displays ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
6.
... able, intelligent,
friendly people.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
7.
... able to
achieve by the same means ...
12&12
Step Six, p.64
Having been granted a perfect release from alcoholism, why then shouldn't
we be able to achieve by the
same means a perfect release from every other difficulty or defect?
8.
... able to
admit and accept what he ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
9.
... able to
alter my own conduct and ...
12&12
Step Four, p.52
These are the sort of fundamental inquiries
that can disclose the source of my discomfort and
indicate whether I may be
able to alter my own conduct and so adjust myself serenely to self-discipline.
10.
... able to
avoid it.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
Had you offered yourselves as patients at
this hospital, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to
avoid it.
11.
... able to
be of this world once ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
12.
... able to
bring myself to feel that ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
I talked with him for some time, but was not able to bring myself to feel that I had known him before.
13.
... able to
build upon the lessons of ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.131
14.
... able to
control his desire for alcohol, ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand
-- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of
ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only
effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
15.
... able to
determine which course to take.
BB
Into Action, p.86
16.
... able to
do anything."
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
17.
... able to
do, feel, and believe that ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the
most important meaning
of it is that he has now become
able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.
18.
... able to
do with it!
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
19.
... able to
find some of these treasures, ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
20.
... able to
forgive others, no matter how ...
12&12
Step Five, p.58
Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us.
21.
... able to
get away with a few ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
If he says yes, does he really mean it, or down inside does he think he is fooling you, and
that after rest and treatment he will be able to get away
with a few drinks now and then?
22.
... able to
hold my position, I could ...
BB
To Employers, p.141
I know, in my own particular case, that nothing my company could have
done would have stopped me
for, so long as I was able to hold my position, I could not
possibly realize how serious my situation was.
23.
... able to
justify the most arrant nonsense ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
Lacking both practice and humility, they
had deluded themselves
and were able to justify the
most arrant nonsense on
the ground that this was what God had told them.
24.
... able to
keep a confidence; that he ...
BB
Into Action, p.74
It is important that he be able to keep a confidence; that he fully understand and approve
what we are driving at; that he will not try to change our plan.
25.
... able to
lay aside prejudice and express ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
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.
26.
... able to
leave it behind us.
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
27.
... able to
let Him in?
12&12
Step Three, p.34
Therefore our problem now becomes just how and by what specific
means shall we be able to let Him in?
28.
... able to
maintain anything like perfect adherence ...
BB
How It Works, p.60
29.
... able to
make direct personal contact at ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.83
There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.
30.
... able to
make use of his services ...
BB
To Employers, p.146
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use
of his services with other
employees who are giving
you the alcoholic run-around -- provided, of course, they are willing to
have a third party in the picture.
31.
... able to
meet other difficulties of life.
12&12
Foreword, p.15
Many people, nonalcoholics, report
that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been
able to meet other difficulties of life.
32.
... able to
move closer to the ideal ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
It ought to be followed by
a good look at where we stand now, and a further look at what might happen in our lives were we
able to move closer to the ideal we have been
trying to glimpse.
33.
... able to
muster.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
But when the broker gave him
Dr. Silkworth's description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster.
34.
... able to
offer them.
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
Dr. John F. Stouffer, Chief Psychiatrist, Philadelphia General Hospital, citing his experience with A.A., said: "The alcoholics we get here at Philadelphia General are
mostly those who cannot afford private treatment, and A.A. is by far the greatest thing we have been able to offer them.
35.
... able to
receive forgiveness and give it, ...
12&12
Step Five, p.58
Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round
forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five that we inwardly knew we'd be able to receive forgiveness and give it,
too.
36.
... able to
recover on a spiritual basis.
BB
A Vision For You, p.162
Understanding our work,
he can do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.
37.
... able to
say that the consciousness of ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.51
When many hundreds of people are able to say that the consciousness
of the Presence of God is today the most important fact of their lives, they present a powerful reason why one should have faith.
38.
... able to
say with assurance that Alcoholics ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.172
Today, we are able to say with assurance that Alcoholics Anonymous --
A.A. as a whole -- should never be organized at all.
39.
... able to
secure a much coveted internship ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
I conducted myself so creditably that I was able to
secure a much coveted internship in a western city, where I spent two years.
40.
... able to
see that instinct run wild ...
12&12
Step Four, p.44
Alcoholics especially should be able to
see that instinct run wild in themselves is the underlying cause of their destructive drinking.
41.
... able to
see the change setting in.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
Looking at those who were
only beginning and still
doubted themselves, the
rest of us were able to see the change setting in.
42.
... able to
snap back the next morning ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
I seemed to be able to snap back the next morning better than most of my fellow
drinkers, who were cursed
(or perhaps blessed) with
a great deal of morning-after nausea.
43.
... able to
stay sober, or even alive, ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.132
Alone now, he reflects that he may not be able to stay sober, or even alive, unless he passes on to other alcoholics what was so freely given him.
44.
... able to
stop for a considerable period, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
45.
... able to
stop for a long period ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
We have heard of a few instances where people, who
showed definite signs of alcoholism, were
able to stop for a long period because of an overpowering desire to do
so.
46.
... able to
stop or moderate, because their ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
That may be true of certain
nonalcoholic people
who, though drinking foolishly and heavily at
the present time, are able to stop or moderate, because their brains and bodies have not been
damaged as ours were.
47.
... able to
summon the faith that can ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
Without it, they cannot live
to much useful purpose, or, in adversity,
be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency.
48.
... able to
surmount other serious difficulties.
12&12
Step Five, p.61
We shall want to speak with someone who is experienced, who not only has stayed dry but has been able to surmount other serious difficulties.
49.
... able to
take a position with such ...
BB
To Employers, p.148
50.
... able to
take discipline, stand up under ...
12&12
Step Three, p.38
Would they be able to take discipline, stand up under fire, and endure the monotony and misery of war?
51.
... able to
take our first steps toward ...
12&12
Step One, p.21
We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength.
52.
... able to
touch more than a fair ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xxi
In all probability, we shall never be able to touch more than a fair fraction of the alcohol problem in all its ramifications.
53.
... able to
understand Him.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we
found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly
better able to understand Him.
54.
... able to
understand people who said that ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.42
55.
... able, while
acutely depressed, realization of his ...
BB
To Employers, p.144
If the book is read the moment the patient is able, while acutely depressed, realization of his condition may come to him.
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