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... believe.
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
That was great news to us, for
we had assumed we could not make use of spiritual principles unless we accepted many things on faith which seemed difficult to believe.
2.
... believe.
BB
We Agnostics, p.57
3.
... believe a
man should be thoroughly probed ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
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
6.
... believe, and
so suggested a few years ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is
limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker.
7.
... believe anything.
12&12
Step Two, p.26
8.
... believe anything,
or conform to anything?
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
Why did we dare to say, contrary to the experience of society and
government everywhere, that we would neither punish nor deprive any A.A. of membership, that we must never compel anyone to pay anything, believe anything, or conform to anything?
9.
... believe as
he believes.
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
10.
... believe have
eventually seen the childishness of ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
Those of us who have spent much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of it.
11.
... believe he
is a gravely ill person, ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
Say that you believe he is a gravely ill person, with this qualification -- being perhaps fatally ill, does he want to get well?
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
Relieved of the alcohol
obsession, their lives unaccountably transformed, they came to
believe in a Higher Power, and most of them began to
talk of God."
16.
... believe in
a Power greater than himself.
BB
We Agnostics, p.48
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
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
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.
21.
... believe in
a Power greater than themselves, ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
They flatly declare that
since they have come to believe
in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in
their way of living and thinking.
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
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
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
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
They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.
30.
... believe in
these things at all.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
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
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
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
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.
39.
... believe that
a Power greater than ourselves ...
BB
How It Works, p.59
40.
... believe that
a Power greater than ourselves ...
12&12
Contents (Step Two), p.5
41.
... believe that
a Power greater than ourselves ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
42.
... believe that
a Power greater than ourselves ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we did
when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
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
As we lay aside these very human aspirations, we believe that
each of us takes part in the weaving of a protective mantle which covers our whole Society and under which we may
grow and work in unity.
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
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
53.
... believe that
our human intelligence was the ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.49
Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics and
atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last
word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all.
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
12. And finally, we of Alcoholics Anonymous
believe that the principle
of anonymity has an immense spiritual significance.
57.
... believe that
the principle of anonymity has ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve (Long), p.192
Twelve -- And finally, we
of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the principle of anonymity
has an immense spiritual
significance.
58.
... believe that
the reader will be interested ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
We of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the reader will be interested in the medical
estimate of the plan of recovery described in this
book.
59.
... believe, that
there is a Power greater ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
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
63.
... believe, the
best answers that our experience ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can
A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"
64.
... believe, the
principle of corporate poverty was ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.165
At that moment, we believe,
the principle of corporate poverty was firmly and finally embedded in A.A. tradition.
65.
... believe there
is no middle-of-the-road solution.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.25
66.
... believe there
isn't a fellowship on earth ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.129
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.
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
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
We read wordy books and indulge in windy arguments, thinking we believe this universe needs no God to explain it.
71.
... believe, to
all men.
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
72.
... believe to
be spiritual as well as ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
73.
... believe was
the great panacea for all ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
Without this proof the expectant purchaser would
be forced to depart empty handed with none of what I later came to believe was the great panacea for all human ills.
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
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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