From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
Click
to display the full page from the Big Book1.
... degree.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
2.
... degree, everybody
is infected with it.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
3.
... degree, he
has already done this when ...
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.
4.
... degree of
honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He finds himself in possession of a degree of
honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of
mind, and love of which he had
thought himself quite incapable.
5.
... degree of
humility could enable us to ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that degree of humility
could enable us to find the
grace by which such a deadly obsession could be
banished, then there must
be hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly
have.
6.
... degree of
humility, no alcoholic can stay ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
7.
... degree of
perfection that God wishes for ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
When they drive us blindly, or we willfully
demand that they supply us
with more satisfactions or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is
the point at which we depart from the degree of perfection that God wishes for us here on earth.
8.
... degree of
readiness?
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
9.
... degree of
stability, happiness and usefulness which ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We used to amuse ourselves by cynically
dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree
of stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves.
10.
... degree the
assurance of the believer, the ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
He cannot attain in even a
small degree the assurance of the believer, the agnostic,
or the atheist.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
The A.A. Preamble, copyright ©
The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.
Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or
endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.
Copyright © 2005-2012, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.