From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... come.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
2.
... come.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
When our inventory is carefully taken, and we
have made peace with ourselves, the conviction follows that
tomorrow's challenges can be met as
they come.
3.
... come.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
4.
... come.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
5.
... come.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Should you wish them above
all else, and be willing to
make use of our experience, we are sure
they will come.
6.
... come a
long way spiritually, and is ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He goes on to explain that
any person capable of enough willingness and honesty
to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults -- without any reservations whatever -- has indeed
come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be
called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and likeness of his own Creator.
7.
... come about?"
you ask.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
"How is that to come about?" you ask.
8.
... come after
we have tried this for ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
9.
... come and
go as he likes.
BB p.120,
To Wives
10.
... come back
for one reason or another.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
11.
... come back
to sit in the meeting ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us;
you can't keep us out."
12.
... come before
personalities, without exception.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
13.
... come before
sobriety, and emotional turmoil before ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
How heartily we A.A.'s can
agree with him, for we know
that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.
14.
... come before
the egg.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
15.
... come close
to a solution.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
In this respect they are certainly a power greater than you, who have not even come close to a solution.
16.
... come, depend
squarely upon it.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
17.
... come first,
and that material satisfactions were ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
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.
... come first;
personal recovery depends upon A.A. ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
19.
... come first;
personal recovery depends upon A.A. ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
20.
... come from
a Higher Power.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
21.
... come from
God are not answers at ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
22.
... come from
medical men who have had ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Convincing testimony must surely come from medical men who have had experience with the sufferings of our members and have witnessed our return to health.
23.
... come from
them if we turn more ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
But in the longer run we clearly realize that these
are only the pains of growing up, and nothing but good can come from them if we turn more and more to the entire Twelve Steps for the answers.
24.
... come from
within.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
25.
... come from
without.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
These stem from causes which
sometimes seem to be within us, and at other times to come from without.
26.
... come home
plastered, carrying a big potted ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It was the day before Mother's Day and I had come home plastered, carrying a big potted plant which I set down on the table and forthwith went upstairs and passed out.
27.
... come --
I would drink again.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
I now remembered what my
alcoholic friends had
told me, how they prophesied that if I had an alcoholic mind, the time and place would come -- I would drink again.
28.
... come, if
we want it.
BB p.69,
How It Works
29.
... come, if
your own house is in ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
30.
... come in.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
31.
... come in
here talking religion!'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
32.
... come in
the door shouting the good ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
33.
... come into
A.A., if we go on ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes
and actions toward security -- emotional security and financial
security -- commence
to change profoundly.
34.
... come into
agreement with these ideas, it ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Once we have come into agreement with these ideas,
it is really easy to begin the practice of Step Three.
35.
... come into
harmony with practically anybody.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Courtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we may come
into harmony with practically anybody.
36.
... come into
your mind would be: "what ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
The question which might naturally come into your mind would be: "what did the man
do or say that was different from what others
had done or said?"
37.
... come, it
will be apparent to both ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
38.
... come oblivion
and the awful awakening to ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
Momentarily we did -- then would come oblivion and the awful awakening to face the hideous Four Horsemen -- Terror, Bewilderment,
Frustration, Despair.
39.
... come off
very well.
BB p.61,
How It Works
40.
... come out?
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
How do they come out?
41.
... come out
of asylums and resume a ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and
communities.
42.
... come over.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
43.
... come over
that evening to meet a ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.
44.
... come quite
as much from our voluntary ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering.
45.
... come straight
out of painful ego-puncturing.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.
46.
... come strongly.
BB p.75,
Into Action
47.
... come through
to the bottom, becoming club ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some would start at the top
and come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized, then graduated to education
on the third floor.
48.
... come to
a close.
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
49.
... come to
"a decision to turn our ...
12&12 p.34,
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."
50.
... come to
agree with those doctors.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
51.
... come to
all who have honestly sought ...
BB p.57,
We Agnostics
52.
... come to
another kind of problem: the ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
53.
... come to
any alcoholic who joins A.A. ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating weakness
and all its consequences.
54.
... come to
appreciate your reasonableness and patience.
BB p.111,
To Wives
55.
... come to
believe He would like us ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
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.
56.
... come to
believe in a Power greater ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
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.
57.
... come to
believe in the hopelessness and ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
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.
58.
... come to
believe it an illness -- involves ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
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.
59.
... come to
believe that a man-made millennium ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
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.
60.
... come to
grips with some of our ...
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
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.
61.
... come to
grips with those serious character ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
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.
62.
... come to
him.
BB p.144,
To Employers
If the book is read the moment the patient is able, while acutely depressed, realization of his condition may come to him.
63.
... come to
know how wrong thinking and ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather
not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
64.
... come to
know them, the entire absence ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
The unselfishness of these men as we have come to know them, the entire absence of profit motive, and their community spirit, is indeed inspiring to one who has labored long and wearily in this alcoholic field.
65.
... come to
make regular use of prayer ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
Those of us who have come to
make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine.
66.
... come to
mind.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
67.
... come to
mind easily in each individual ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes.
68.
... come to
pass for you and countless ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others.
69.
... come to
pass his experience along to ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
70.
... come to
pass naturally and in good ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
These things will come to pass naturally and in good time provided, however, the
alcoholic continues
to demonstrate that he can be sober, considerate, and
helpful, regardless
of what anyone says or does.
71.
... come to
regard as hopeless.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman
of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had
come to regard as hopeless.
72.
... come to
rely upon it.
BB p.87,
Into Action
73.
... come to
so many?
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Have we alcoholics in A.A.
got, or can we get, the resources to meet these calamities which come to so
many?
74.
... come to
sticky ends elsewhere.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
By his eloquence he allayed all fears, despite advice from the Foundation that it could issue no charter, and that ventures
which mixed an A.A. group with medication and
education had come to sticky ends elsewhere.
75.
... come to
terms with seeming failure or ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
76.
... come to
the conclusion that our particular ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist:
"As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship of my specialty to A.A. and I have
come to the conclusion
that our particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside help.
77.
... come to
the point where he desperately ...
BB p.110,
To Wives
78.
... come to
the rescue.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
79.
... come to
them.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
80.
... come to
us, we felt we were ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
"As material success founded upon no more than these ordinary attributes began to come to us, we felt we were winning at the game of life.
81.
... come to
you.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
82.
... come to
you.
BB p.116,
To Wives
This experience may come
to you.
83.
... come, try
to pause and count your ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
84.
... come up
during business hours.
BB p.146,
To Employers
He may wish to do a lot for other alcoholics and something of the sort may
come up during business hours.
85.
"Come, what's
all this about?" I queried.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
"Come, what's all this about?" I queried.
86.
... come when
he ought to redouble his ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways.
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