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BELIEVE occurs
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1.
... believe.
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
2.
... believe.
BB
We Agnostics, p.57
3.
... believe a
man should be thoroughly probed ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
We
believe a
man should be
thoroughly probed on these
points.
4.
... believe, almost
owes this recompense on a ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
5.
... believe and
hope it contains all you ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.163
We
believe and
hope it
contains all you
will need to
begin.
6.
... believe, and
so suggested a few years ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
7.
... believe anything.
12&12
Step Two, p.26
8.
... believe anything,
or conform to anything?
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
9.
... believe as
he believes.
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
I'm
sure it would
work if I
could only
believe as he
believes.
10.
... believe have
eventually seen the childishness of ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
11.
... believe he
is a gravely ill person, ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
12.
... believe He
would like us to keep ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
We have
come to
believe He would
like us to
keep our
heads in the
clouds with Him,
but that our
feet ought to be
firmly planted on
earth.
13.
... believe himself
an alcoholic, much less accept ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
14.
... believe in?
12&12
Contents (Step Two), p.5
What can we believe in?
15.
... believe in
a Higher Power, and most ...
12&12
Step Two, p.28
16.
... believe in
a Power greater than himself.
BB
We Agnostics, p.48
The
reader may
still ask why he should
believe in a
Power greater than
himself.
17.
... believe in
a Power greater than himself ...
BB
Working With Others, p.93
The
main thing is that he be
willing to
believe in a
Power greater than
himself and that he
live by
spiritual principles.
18.
... believe in
a Power greater than myself.
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
It was only a
matter of
being
willing to
believe in a
Power greater than
myself.
19.
... believe in
a Power greater than myself, ...
12&12
Step Two, p.27
I can't
say upon what
occasion or
upon what
day I
came to
believe in a
Power greater than
myself, but I
certainly have that
belief
now.
20.
... believe in
a Power greater than ourselves, ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
21.
... believe in
a Power greater than themselves, ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
22.
... believe in
a Spirit of the Universe, ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.10
23.
... believe in
God and defy Him, too.
12&12
Step Two, p.31
No man, we
saw, could
believe in
God and
defy Him, too.
24.
... believe in
God, others can't, and still ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
Some of us won't
believe in
God,
others can't, and
still others who do
believe that
God exists have
no faith whatever He
will perform this
miracle.
25.
... believe in
him.
12&12
Step Two, p.32
He's
sure he
still believes in
God, but
suspects that
God doesn't
believe in him.
26.
... believe in
it, or because they feel ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.105
All this should be
very encouraging news for
those who
recoil from
prayer because they don't
believe in it, or
because
they
feel themselves cut off from
God's
help and
direction.
27.
... believe in
our own reasoning?
BB
We Agnostics, pp.53-54
For did we not
believe in our
own
reasoning?
28.
... believe in
the hopelessness and futility of ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.25
But we
saw that it
really worked in
others, and we had
come to
believe in the
hopelessness and
futility of
life as we had been
living it.
29.
... believe in
themselves, and still more in ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
30.
... believe in
these things at all.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
Or
perhaps we don't
believe
in these
things at all.
31.
... believe it
an illness -- involves those about ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
An
illness of this
sort --
and we have
come to
believe it
an
illness --
involves those about us in a
way no other human sickness can.
32.
Believe it
or not, wealthy townsfolk bought ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.147
Believe it or not,
wealthy townsfolk bought the
idea.
33.
... believe it
should be made plain that ...
BB
To Employers, p.143
If you
propose such a
procedure to him, it may be
necessary to
advance the
cost of
treatment, but we
believe it should be
made plain that
any expense will later be
deducted from his
pay.
34.
... believe it
would be possible for me ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
Let him
tell you about it: "I was
much impressed with what
you
fellows said about
alcoholism, and I
frankly
did not
believe it would be
possible for me to
drink again.
35.
... believe, or
am I even willing to ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
"Do I
now believe, or am I
even willing to
believe, that there is a
Power greater than
myself?"
36.
... believe, or
is willing to believe, we ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
As
soon as a
man can
say that he does
believe, or is
willing to
believe, we
emphatically assure him
that he is on his
way.
37.
... believe than
not to believe, why we ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
Hence we are at
pains to
tell why we
think our
present faith is
reasonable,
why we
think it
more sane and
logical to
believe than not to
believe,
why we
say our
former thinking was
soft and
mushy when we
threw up our
hands in
doubt and
said, "We don't
know."
38.
... believe that
a man-made millennium lies just ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
39.
... believe that
a Power greater than ourselves ...
BB
How It Works, p.59
2.
Came to
believe that a
Power greater than
ourselves could
restore us
to
sanity.
40.
... believe that
a Power greater than ourselves ...
12&12
Contents (Step Two), p.5
Step Two -- "
Came to
believe that a
Power greater than
ourselves could
restore us
to
sanity."
41.
... believe that
a Power greater than ourselves ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
"
Came to
believe that a
Power greater than
ourselves could
restore us
to
sanity."
42.
... believe that
a Power greater than ourselves ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
43.
... believe that
alcoholism is entirely a problem ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
44.
... believe that
each of us takes part ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.187
45.
... believe that
early in our drinking careers ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
Though there is
no way of
proving it, we
believe that
early in our
drinking careers most of us
could have
stopped drinking.
46.
... believe that
God exists have no faith ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
Some of us won't
believe in
God,
others can't, and
still others who do
believe that
God exists have
no faith whatever He
will perform this
miracle.
47.
... believe that
his brother-executive suffered from a ...
BB
To Employers, p.138
48.
... believe that
I was an alcoholic almost ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
Never once in my
life have I had a
headache,
which
fact leads me to
believe that I was an
alcoholic
almost from the
start.
49.
... believe that
if only they'd treat us ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
We
firmly believe that if only
they'd
treat us
better, we'd
be all
right.
50.
... believe that
it is only by fully ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.29
Our
hope is that
many alcoholic men and
women,
desperately in
need,
will see these
pages, and we
believe that it is only by
fully disclosing ourselves and
our
problems that they
will
be
persuaded to
say, "
Yes, I am
one of them too; I
must have this
thing."
51.
... believe that
managers of large enterprises often ...
BB
To Employers, p.149
52.
... believe that
our adult dreams were often ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
We would not
believe that our
adult dreams were
often truly childish.
53.
... believe that
our human intelligence was the ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.49
54.
... believe that
our one-time good characters will ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
55.
... believe --
that the body of the alcoholic ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
In this
statement he
confirms what we who have
suffered alcoholic torture must believe -- that the
body of the
alcoholic is
quite as
abnormal as his
mind.
56.
... believe that
the principle of anonymity has ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
57.
... believe that
the principle of anonymity has ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve (Long), p.192
58.
... believe that
the reader will be interested ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
59.
... believe, that
there is a Power greater ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
"Do I
now believe, or am I
even willing to
believe, that there is a
Power greater than
myself?"
60.
... believe that
though I once had the ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
I
used to
get terribly upset when I
saw my
friends drink and
knew I could not, but I
schooled myself to
believe that
though I
once had the
same privilege, I had
abused it
so
frightfully that it was
withdrawn.
61.
... believe that
which he could not do ...
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.
62.
... believe --
the belligerent one.
12&12
Step Two, p.25
Let's
look first at the
case of the
one who
says he won't
believe -- the
belligerent one.
63.
... believe, the
best answers that our experience ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
64.
... believe, the
principle of corporate poverty was ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.165
65.
... believe there
is no middle-of-the-road solution.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.25
If you are as
seriously alcoholic as we were, we
believe there is
no middle-of-the-
road solution.
66.
... believe there
isn't a fellowship on earth ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.129
67.
... believe they
are in that class.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
Despite all we can
say,
many who are
real alcoholics are not
going to
believe they are in that
class.
68.
... believe they
have it.
BB
To Employers, p.149
But
alcoholism --
well,
they
just don't
believe they
have it.
69.
... believe this
program can work for me ...
BB
Preface, p.xii
If you have a
drinking problem, we
hope that you may
pause in
reading one of the
forty-
two personal stories and
think: "
Yes, that
happened to me"; or,
more important, "
Yes, I've
felt like that"; or, most
important, "
Yes, I
believe this
program can
work for me too."
70.
... believe this
universe needs no God to ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.49
71.
... believe, to
all men.
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
It is
open, we
believe, to all
men.
72.
... believe to
be spiritual as well as ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
That
means we have
written a
book which we
believe to be
spiritual as
well as
moral.
73.
... believe was
the great panacea for all ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
74.
... believe we
can make some definite and ...
BB
Into Action, p.86
75.
... believe, we
emphatically assure him that he ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
As
soon as a
man can
say that he does
believe, or is
willing to
believe, we
emphatically assure him
that he is on his
way.
76.
... believe we
needed this help.
BB
To Wives, p.116
At
first, some of us did not
believe we
needed this
help.
77.
... believe we
will be forgiven and will ...
BB
How It Works, p.70
If we are
sorry for what we have
done, and have the
honest desire to
let God take us to
better things, we
believe we
will be
forgiven and
will have
learned our
lesson.
78.
... believe what
they say, so that they ...
12&12
Step Six, p.67
But how
many men and
women speak love with their
lips, and
believe what they
say, so that they can
hide lust in a
dark corner of their
minds?
79.
... believe, why
we say our former thinking ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
Hence we are at
pains to
tell why we
think our
present faith is
reasonable,
why we
think it
more sane and
logical to
believe than not to
believe,
why we
say our
former thinking was
soft and
mushy when we
threw up our
hands in
doubt and
said, "We don't
know."
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