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1.
... 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
In the
morning we
think of
the
hours to
come.
4.
... come.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Like most people, we have
found that we can take our
big lumps as they
come.
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
We are often
surprised how the
right answers come after we have
tried this for a
while.
9.
... come and go as he likes.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Make him
feel absolutely
free to
come and go as he
likes.
10.
... come back for one reason or another.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
In some
cases the
wife will
never come back for one
reason or another.
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
Here,
principles would have to
come before
personalities,
without
exception.
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
Sure, we said to ourselves, the
hen probably did
come before the
egg.
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
Our
lives, the
lives of all
to
come,
depend squarely upon it.
17.
... come first, and that material satisfactions were ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
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
Quite often, however, the
thoughts that
seem to
come from
God are not
answers at all.
22.
... come from medical men who have had ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
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
If he is to find
God, the
desire must come from
within.
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 -- 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.
27.
... come, if we want it.
BB p.69,
How It Works
The
right answer will
come, if we
want it.
28.
... come, if your own house is in ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
The
answers will
come, if
your
own house is in
order.
29.
... come in.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
That is just where the
remaining Steps of the
A.A. program come in.
30.
... come in here talking religion!'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
You've got a
nerve to
come in
here
talking religion!'
31.
... come in the door shouting the good ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
We
want to
come in the
door shouting the
good news.
32.
... come into A.A., if we go on ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
33.
... 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.
34.
... 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.
35.
... come, it will be apparent to both ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
When the
time for
living together has
come, it will be
apparent to both
parties.
36.
... come oblivion and the awful awakening to ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
37.
... come off very well.
BB p.61,
How It Works
The
show doesn't
come off very
well.
38.
... come out?
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
How do they come out?
39.
... 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.
40.
... come over.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
The
cheery voice of an
old school friend asked if he might
come over.
41.
... 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.
42.
... come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
43.
... come strongly.
BB p.75,
Into Action
The
feeling that the
drink
problem has
disappeared will often
come strongly.
44.
... 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.
45.
... come to a close.
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
46.
... 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."
47.
... come to agree with those doctors.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
In the
years since, however, most of us have
come to
agree with those
doctors.
48.
... come to all who have honestly sought ...
BB p.57,
We Agnostics
But He has
come to all who have
honestly sought Him.
49.
... come to another kind of problem: the ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
50.
... come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
51.
... come to appreciate your reasonableness and patience.
BB p.111,
To Wives
52.
... 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.
53.
... 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.
54.
... 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.
55.
... 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.
56.
... come to believe that a man-made millennium ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
57.
... 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.
58.
... come to grips with those serious character ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
59.
... 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.
60.
... 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.
61.
... come to know them, the entire absence ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
62.
... 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.
63.
... come to mind.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
It hadn't even
come to
mind.
64.
... 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.
65.
... 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.
66.
... come to pass his experience along to ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
He had
come to
pass his
experience along to me -- if I
cared to have it.
67.
... 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.
68.
... come to regard as hopeless.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
69.
... come to rely upon it.
BB p.87,
Into Action
70.
... 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?
71.
... 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.
72.
... come to terms with seeming failure or ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
73.
... come to the conclusion that our particular ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
74.
... come to the point where he desperately ...
BB p.110,
To Wives
He may have
come to the
point
where he
desperately wants to
stop but cannot.
75.
... come to the rescue.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
76.
... come to them.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
They had seen
miracles, and one was to
come to them.
77.
... 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.
78.
... come to you.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
The
consciousness of your
belief is
sure to
come to you.
79.
... come to you.
BB p.116,
To Wives
This
experience may
come
to you.
80.
... come, try to pause and count your ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
81.
... 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.
82.
"Come, what's all this about?" I queried.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
"
Come, what's all this about?" I
queried.
83.
... 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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