From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... difference.
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.
2.
... difference.
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
In our own times, we have seen millions die in political and economic wars often spurred by religious and racial difference.
3.
... difference.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
4.
... difference.
BB p.108,
To Wives
We realize some men are thoroughly bad-intentioned, that no amount of patience will make any difference.
5.
... difference between
a demand and a simple ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
6.
... difference between
failure and success.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
7.
... difference between
life and death.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous
has made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the
difference between life and death.
8.
... difference between
misery and sobriety, and often ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous
has made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the
difference between life and death.
9.
... difference between
sane drinking and alcoholism.
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
They are abetted in this blindness by a world which
does not understand the difference between sane drinking and alcoholism.
10.
... difference between
striving for a self-determined objective ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
So the difference between
"the boys and the men" is the
difference between striving for a self-determined objective
and for the perfect objective which is of God.
11.
... difference between
"the boys and the men" ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
So the difference between
"the boys and the men" is the
difference between striving for a self-determined objective
and for the perfect objective which is of God.
12.
... difference between
the spirit of vested authority ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is the difference between the spirit of vested authority and the
spirit of service, two concepts which are sometimes poles apart.
13.
... difference, even
if I should do some ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
14.
... difference long
before he is himself.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
15.
... difference of
opinion.
BB p.117,
To Wives
We do not mean that you have to agree with your husband whenever there is an honest
difference of opinion.
16.
... difference. Thy
will, not mine, be done."
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."
17.
... difference with
the principle involved.
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
True, some of the projects
to which A.A.'s have attached themselves
have been ill-conceived,
but that makes not the slightest difference with
the principle involved.
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