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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CHANCE occurs
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1.
... 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
I had
warned him several
times that he had but one more
chance.
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
If, on the
contrary, you are
sure he is doing his
utmost,
you may
wish to
give him
another
chance.
7.
... chance.
BB p.148,
To Employers
If he
wants to
stop, he
should be
afforded a
real
chance.
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
These people often
throw to the
winds every
chance for
legitimate security and
a
happy family life.
10.
... chance for
recovery!
BB p.73,
Into Action
11.
... chance for
sobriety that we've had.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
We just
want to be
sure that
you get the same
great chance
for
sobriety that we've had.
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
But
insist that if he is
severely afflicted,
there may be
little chance
he can
recover by himself.
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
If we do, we
destroy our
chance of being
helpful.
19.
... chance of
being helpful if you do.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
You may
spoil your
chance of
being
helpful if you do.
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
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
Naturally this
sort of
thing
decreased the
man's
chance of
recovery.
25.
... chance of
success.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
If he is a
real alcoholic
and very far
advanced, there is
scant chance of
success.
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
Give him a
chance to
think it over.
30.
... chance to
try our method, unless the ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
31.
... chance vanished.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Then I went on a
prodigious bender, and that
chance vanished.
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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