From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... ahead.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
The immense resources
now being harnessed promise such a quantity of material blessings that
many have come to believe that a man-made millennium lies just ahead.
2.
... ahead.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he
could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.
3.
... ahead.
BB p.83,
Into Action
4.
... ahead.
BB p.86,
Into Action
5.
... ahead.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
6.
... ahead.
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Many of our friends encourage us by saying
that this is but a beginning, only the augury of a much larger future ahead.
7.
... ahead began
to look easier.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
8.
... ahead of
dependence on God.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job
-- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.
9.
... ahead of
everything else.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
10.
... ahead of
him.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He often possesses special abilities, skills, and aptitudes, and
has a promising career
ahead of him.
11.
... ahead of
his own.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
12.
... ahead of
spiritual development.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think
dad will be on a firmer foundation than
the man who is placing business or professional success
ahead of spiritual development.
13.
... ahead of
this project that may surpass ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
I suspect that if it is wisely handled -- and it seems to be in wise and prudent hands -- there are doors of opportunity
ahead of this project that
may surpass our capacities to imagine."
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