From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... care.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care.
2.
... care.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
The wife usually goes on doing the best she knows how, but meanwhile the alcoholic
alternately loves and
hates her maternal care.
3.
... care.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.
4.
... care and
direction.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
5.
... care and
direction of his Creator, and ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator,
and said he was perfectly
willing to do anything
necessary.
6.
... care, boredom
and worry.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
7.
... care, boredom
and worry.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
8.
... care chap.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
He now returned home, leaving behind his first acquaintance, the lawyer and the devil-may-care chap.
9.
... care for
people who lecture us.
BB p.121,
To Wives
10.
... care for
the one I've suggested, you'll ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
If you don't care for the one
I've suggested, you'll be sure to discover one that suits if only you look and listen.
11.
... care for
this prospect -- unless he has ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme,
doesn't care for this prospect -- unless he has
to do these things in order
to stay alive himself.
12.
... care in
this hospital and while here ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
Many years ago one of the leading contributors
to this book came under our care in this hospital and while here he acquired some ideas which he put into practical application
at once.
13.
... care not
to participate in their quarrels.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
14.
... care of
a celebrated physician (the psychiatrist, ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
Then he had gone to Europe,
placing himself in the
care of a celebrated physician (the psychiatrist, Dr. Jung) who prescribed for
him.
15.
... care of
God as we understood Him."
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
16.
... care of
God as we understood Him."
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have
tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
17.
... care of
God as we understood Him.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Consequently, in Step
Three we turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
18.
... care of
God as we understood Him.
BB p.59,
How It Works
19.
... care of
his health.
BB p.112,
To Wives
20.
... care of
Something or Somebody else, what ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
If I keep on turning my life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody else, what will become of me?
21.
... care of
such problems.
BB p.87,
Into Action
We usually conclude the
period of meditation
with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given
whatever we need to take care of such problems.
22.
... care of
the lonely heart.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
23.
... care of
them?
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
24.
... care of
those awful debts, possess a ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?
25.
... care of
us or that the world ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
When we had taken the opposite tack and had insisted, like infants ourselves, that
people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result had
been equally unfortunate.
26.
... care of
whatever God he thinks there ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can he turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is?
27.
... care, protection,
and guidance of Alcoholics Anonymous?
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance of Alcoholics
Anonymous?
28.
... care, remembering
that prudence is a virtue ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
29.
... care that
it never becomes the seat ...
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of
unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by
discussion, vote, and,
whenever possible, by
substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that
it never perform acts of government, and
that, like the Society it
serves, it will always remain democratic in thought
and action.
30.
... care to
have advertised.
BB p.81,
Into Action
31.
... care to
reveal only a part of ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
Perhaps, though, your relation to him is such that
you would care to reveal
only a part of your story.
32.
... care upon
its individual members; surely there ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
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.
33.
... care what
happens to the family and ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Are we going to be so rigidly righteous about
making amends that we
don't care what happens to
the family and home?
34.
... care which
brought him to the point ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
Your husband will be the first to say it was your devotion and care which brought him to the point
where he could have a spiritual experience.
35.
... care with
complete abandon.
BB p.59,
How It Works
36.
... care young
fellow whose parents could not ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He proved to be a devil-may-care young fellow whose parents could not make out whether he wanted to stop drinking or not.
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