From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... admit alcohol
has him down for keeps.
12&12
Step Two, p.25
2.
... admit and
accept what he finds, and ...
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.
3.
... admit, and
correct these flaws is the ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.95
Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living.
4.
... admit complete
defeat?
12&12
Step One, p.21
5.
... admit complete
defeat is the main taproot ...
12&12
Step One, p.22
The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered.
6.
... admit defeat,
most of us revolted.
12&12
Step One, p.22
7.
... admit if
we substituted alcoholism for jay-walking, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.38
We, who have been through the wringer, have to admit if we
substituted alcoholism for jay-walking, the illustration would fit us
exactly.
8.
... admit it
is injurious, they cannot after ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
The sensation is so elusive that, while they
admit it is injurious,
they cannot after a time differentiate the true
from the false.
9.
... admit it
promptly.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we
would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
10.
... admit it
-- to ourselves always, and to ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
Whenever we fail any of these people, we can promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to
them also, when the admission would be helpful.
11.
... admit nobody
to A.A. but that hypothetical ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.140
"We were resolved to admit
nobody to A.A. but that hypothetical class of people we termed 'pure alcoholics.'
12.
... admit other
defects that have made us ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
13.
... admit our
fault.
BB
Into Action, p.81
14.
... admit that
A.A. showed results, prodigious results.
12&12
Step Two, p.27
15.
... admit that
and mend his spiritual fences.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.135
16.
... admit that,
glass in hand, we have ...
12&12
Step One, p.21
It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking
that only an act of Providence can remove it
from us.
17.
... admit that
he cannot take a drink.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
18.
Admit that
he probably knows more about ...
BB
Working With Others, p.93
Admit that he probably knows more about it than you do,
but call to his attention
the fact that however deep his
faith and knowledge, he
could not have applied it or he would not drink.
19.
... admit that
our justification for a spree ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.37
But even in this type of beginning we are obliged
to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened.
20.
... admit that
their imaginary sex excursions are ...
12&12
Step Six, p.67
And even while staying within conventional bounds, many people have to admit that their imaginary sex excursions are apt to be all dressed up as dreams of romance.
21.
... admit that
they prefer to hang on ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
But even these people, if
they construct a list of
still milder defects, will be obliged to admit that they prefer to hang on to some of
them.
22.
... admit that
we had many of these ...
12&12
Step Four, p.47
First of all, we had to admit
that we had many of these defects, even though such disclosures were painful and humiliating.
23.
... admit that
we have loved but a ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
Most of us must admit that we
have loved but a few; that we
have been quite indifferent to the many so
long as none of them gave us trouble; and as for
the remainder -- well, we
have really disliked or
hated them.
24.
... admit the
damage we have done and ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
25.
... admit the
damage we have done by ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
After coming from our first meeting, or perhaps after we have finished reading the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," we usually want to sit down with some member of the family and readily admit the damage we have done by our drinking.
26.
... admit the
truth about ourselves -- the help ...
12&12
Step Five, p.59
We'd have to have outside help if we were surely to know and admit the truth about ourselves --
the help of God and another human being.
27.
... admit them.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
28.
... admit we
have made little impression upon ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
Though the aggregate of
recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole.
29.
... admit we
have some of these symptoms, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.38
We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves
so well after what you have
told us that such things cannot happen again.
30.
... admit we
were real alcoholics.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
31.
... admit when
the fault is ours, and ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.91
In all these situations we need self-restraint, honest analysis of what is involved, a willingness to admit when
the fault is ours, and an equal willingness to forgive when the fault is elsewhere.
32.
Admit your
faults to Him and to ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.164
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