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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

combined
come
comes
COMFORT   occurs   12 times 2 in BB  •  10 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
comfortable
comforted
comforting

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1.
  ... comfort."  12&12 Step Six, p.67
When gluttony is less than ruinous, we have a milder word for that, too; we call it "taking our comfort."


2.
  ... comfort in the laughter and talk.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
We can be the ones who take on the unspectacular but important tasks that make good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps arranging for the coffee and cake after the meetings, where so many skeptical, suspicious newcomers have found confidence and comfort in the laughter and talk.


3.
  ... comfort of any conviction at all.  12&12 Step Two, p.28
He thinks himself lost to the comfort of any conviction at all.


4.
  ... comfort of oblivion it brought.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.


5.
  ... comfort than to be comforted -- to understand, ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted -- to understand, than to be understood -- to love, than to be loved.


6.
  ... comfort than to be comforted, to understand ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.103
At these critical moments, if we remind ourselves that "it is better to comfort than to be comforted, to understand than to be understood, to love than to be loved," we will be following the intent of Step Eleven.


7.
  ... comfort than to receive it; better to ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.101
He thought it better to give comfort than to receive it; better to understand than to be understood; better to forgive than to be forgiven.


8.
  ... comfort, the character-building was lost in the ...  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.


9.
  ... comfort the melancholy one by first showing ...  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.


10.
  ... comfort those who are, or who may ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
We hope this volume will inform and comfort those who are, or who may be affected.


11.
  ... comfort to ourselves and those about us?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
Can we transform these calamities into assets, sources of growth and comfort to ourselves and those about us?


12.
  ... comfort which comes at once by taking ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, pp.xxviii-xxix
They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks -- drinks which they see others taking with impunity.


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