164 and More on all your devices ... Learn More
From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
Click a book cover icon
to view the Big Book or 12&12 chapter, or Grapevine text1.
... character.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
2.
... character.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
3.
... character.
BB
How It Works, p.59
4.
... character.
BB
Into Action, p.73
5.
... character.
BB
To Wives, p.115
You will no longer be self-conscious or feel that you must apologize as though your husband were a weak character.
6.
... character."
12&12
Contents (Step Six), p.6
7.
... character.
12&12
Step Four, p.48
8.
... character."
12&12
Step Six, p.63
9.
... character.
12&12
Step Six, p.65
10.
... character.
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
11.
... character and
comfort, the character-building was lost ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.
12.
... character, and
cut across every barrier of ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
Could any then imagine a society which would include
every conceivable kind of character, and cut across every barrier of race, creed, politics, and language with
ease?
13.
... character and
standing.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
14.
... character are
not going to disappear over ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
15.
... character assassination,
has its satisfactions for us, ...
12&12
Step Six, p.67
Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has
its satisfactions for
us, too.
16.
... character-building and
good living.
12&12
Step Ten, p.95
Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living.
17.
... character-building and
spiritual values had to come ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions
were not the purpose of living.
18.
... character-building as
something desirable in itself, something ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in itself, something we would
like to strive for whether our instinctual
needs were met or not.
19.
Character-building through
suffering might be all right ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
Character-building through suffering might be
all right for saints, but it
certainly didn't appeal
to us.
20.
... character-building was
lost in the dust of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.
21.
... character defects.
12&12
Step Four, p.49
22.
... character defects
and take action toward their ...
12&12
Step Six, p.69
At the very least, we shall have to come to grips with some of our worst
character defects and take action toward their removal as quickly as we can.
23.
... character defects
are.
12&12
Step Four, p.48
Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character defects are.
24.
... character defects
are probably not more numerous ...
12&12
Step Four, p.46
They comfort the melancholy one by first showing him that his case is not strange or different, that his character
defects are probably not
more numerous or worse than those of anyone else in A.A.
25.
... character defects
based upon shortsighted or unworthy ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
We have seen that character defects based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires are the obstacles that block our path toward these objectives.
26.
... character defects
contributed to my financial instability?
12&12
Step Four, p.51
Surveying his business
or employment record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my drinking problem, what character defects contributed to my
financial instability?
27.
... character defects
have not been so glaring.
12&12
Step Four, p.53
Some will object to many of the questions posed, because they think their own character defects have not been so
glaring.
28.
... character defects,
if we think we have ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
We shall claim that our serious character defects, if we think we have any at all, have been caused chiefly by excessive drinking.
29.
... character defects,
or, if you wish, of ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
30.
... character defects,
representing instincts gone astray, have ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions:
that his character defects,
representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary
cause of his drinking and
his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of
the worst of these defects,
both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty
foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
31.
... character defects
they themselves were trying to ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety,
remorse, and depression; and how, unconsciously seeking
relief, they would sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they themselves were trying to
conceal.
32.
... character defects
to be lifted out of ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
This does not mean that we expect all our character defects to be lifted out of us as the drive to drink was.
33.
... character defects
which cause or aggravate them.
12&12
Step Five, p.55
A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them.
34.
... character, every
dark cranny of the past.
BB
Into Action, p.75
We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past.
35.
... character flaws
that made problem drinkers of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.73
Still goaded by sheer necessity, we reluctantly come to grips with those serious character flaws that made problem drinkers of us in
the first place, flaws which must be dealt with to prevent a retreat into alcoholism once again.
36.
... character" --
is A.A.'s way of stating the ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" -- is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime
job.
37.
... character may
still be gravely defective, but ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow
knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he senses that he stands at the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed.
38.
... character removed,
because we still loved some ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
At Step Six, many of us balked -- for the practical reason that we did
not wish to have all our defects of character removed, because we still loved some of them too much.
39.
... character that
we could not yet relinquish, ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
So we decided that while we
still had some flaws of character that we could not yet relinquish, we ought nevertheless to quit our stubborn, rebellious hanging on to them.
40.
... character was
desirable, but obviously good character ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously
good character was something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.
41.
... character was
something one needed to get ...
12&12
Step Seven, pp.71-72
True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously
good character was something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.
42.
... character which
stands in the way of ...
BB
Into Action, p.76
I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you
and my fellows.
43.
... character will
be answered with a prompt ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
Of course, the often disputed question of whether God can -- and will, under certain conditions -- remove defects of character will be answered with a prompt affirmative by almost any A.A. member.
The 164 and More™ Book, eBook, and Web Site
are all CONCORDANCES which display passages from the Big Book
Alcoholics Anonymous, the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
and the A.A. Grapevine (A.A. Preamble only).
Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the
164 and More concordance does not in any way imply
affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
Inc., or the A.A. Grapevine, Inc. Further A.A.W.S. Inc. and the A.A.
Grapevine Inc. have no objection to the use of this material in the
164 and More concordance.
Copyright © 2005-2019, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.