From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... chance.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first -- then and only
then do we have a real chance.
2.
... chance.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
He often says that if he had
continued to work on
them, he might have deprived many others, who have since recovered, of their chance.
3.
... chance.
BB p.136,
To Employers
4.
... chance."
BB p.138,
To Employers
He has just returned from
a three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."
5.
... chance.
BB p.138,
To Employers
He might have a chance.
6.
... chance.
BB p.147,
To Employers
7.
... chance.
BB p.148,
To Employers
8.
... chance.
BB p.148,
To Employers
We think we are sensible
when we urge that you stop
this waste and give your worthwhile man a chance.
9.
... chance for
legitimate security and a happy ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
10.
... chance for
recovery!
BB p.73,
Into Action
Small wonder many in the medical profession have a low opinion of alcoholics
and their chance for recovery!
11.
... chance for
sobriety that we've had.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
12.
... chance for
sobriety would be some place ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
His only chance for sobriety would be some place
like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!
13.
... chance from
the moment it determined to ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Maybe the society could
have survived the abolition controversy, but it didn't have a chance from the moment it determined to reform America's drinking habits.
14.
... chance he
can recover by himself.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
15.
... chance if
we switch from "two-stepping" to ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Well, we surely have a chance if we switch from "two-stepping" to "twelve-stepping," if we are
willing to receive that
grace of God which can sustain and strengthen
us in any catastrophe.
16.
... chance of
accomplishing anything useful may be ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
If he gets the idea that you
are a nag or a killjoy, your
chance of accomplishing anything useful may be zero.
17.
... chance of
becoming truly happy.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they
develop much more of this precious quality than may be required just for sobriety, they still haven't
much chance of becoming truly happy.
18.
... chance of
being helpful.
BB p.67,
How It Works
19.
... chance of
being helpful if you do.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
20.
... chance of
getting what we really wanted.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
With a proper display of
honesty and morality,
we'd stand a better chance of getting what we really wanted.
21.
... chance of
letting self-appointed members present themselves ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
We simply couldn't afford
to take the chance of letting self-appointed members present themselves as messiahs representing
A.A. before the whole public.
22.
... chance of
making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this fashion.
23.
... chance of
recovery.
BB p.120,
To Wives
24.
... chance of
recovery.
BB p.145,
To Employers
25.
... chance of
success.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
26.
... chance of
understanding and accepting what we ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
More often than not, it is imperative that a man's brain be cleared before he is approached,
as he has then a better chance of understanding and
accepting what we have to offer.
27.
... chance that
the head of the family ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
Should they accept and practice spiritual principles, there is a much
better chance that the head of the family will recover.
28.
... chance to
right a serious wrong.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may just procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not yet, when in reality we have already passed up many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.
29.
... chance to
think it over.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
30.
... chance to
try our method, unless the ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or dangerous.
31.
... chance vanished.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
32.
... chance was
sometimes to pronounce his death ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery.
33.
... chance we
were given the power to ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our senses, and
to draw conclusions.
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