From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... courage.
BB p.68,
How It Works
2.
... courage.
BB p.68,
How It Works
3.
... courage, and
prudence -- these are the qualities ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
Good judgment, a careful sense of timing, courage, and prudence -- these are the qualities we shall need when we take Step Nine.
4.
... courage and
serenity?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
5.
... courage and
unaided will cannot do it.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
6.
... courage during
all those years, I'll never ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
7.
... courage, good
nature and lack of self-consciousness ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
8.
... courage he
can muster.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
By now, though, the chances are that he has become convinced that he
has more problems than alcohol, and that some of these refuse to be solved by all
the sheer personal determination and courage he can muster.
9.
... courage, head
straight for the person concerned, ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
But if no such opportunity presents
itself, at some point we will want to summon all our courage, head straight for the person concerned, and lay our cards on the table.
10.
... courage to
change the things I can, ...
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
In all times of emotional disturbance
or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness
simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to
know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."
11.
... Courage to
change the things we can, ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change,
Courage to change the things we can, And wisdom to
know the difference.
12.
... courage to
declare each A.A. group an ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
This meant, of course, that
we had been given the courage
to declare each A.A. group an individual entity, strictly reliant on its own conscience as a guide to
action.
13.
... courage to
do battle was not there.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
The courage to do battle was
not there.
14.
... courage to
flagging spirits.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
The outlines and the promise of the New Land had brought lustre to tired eyes and fresh courage to flagging spirits.
15.
... courage to
many a priest, minister, or ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
He may bring new hope and new courage to many a priest, minister, or rabbi, who gives his all to minister to our troubled
world.
16.
... courage to
scrape an acquaintance and would ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Unless he took some drinks, he might not have the courage to scrape an acquaintance and would have a lonely week-end.
17.
... courage were
uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when
the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and
that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
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