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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FAILED occurs
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1.
... failed.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
His
human will had
failed.
2.
... failed.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... failed.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I
reasoned I was not so far
advanced as most of you
fellows, that I had been usually
successful in
licking my
other
personal problems, and that I would therefore be
successful where you
men
failed.
4.
... failed.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
These
attempts to do the
impossible have always
failed.
5.
... failed.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
While
grateful that he
drinks no more, they may not like the
idea that
God has
accomplished the
miracle where they
failed.
6.
... failed.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
7.
... failed before?
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Had not all
efforts at
flight failed before?
8.
... failed completely.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I
personally know scores of
cases who were of
the
type with whom other
methods had
failed completely.
9.
... failed entirely
with his first half dozen ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
10.
... failed my
law course.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
11.
... failed their
mission through self-seeking.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
12.
... failed to
do.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
After the
husband joins A.A., the
wife may
become discontented,
even
highly resentful
that
Alcoholics Anonymous has done the very thing that all her
years of
devotion had
failed to do.
13.
... failed to
enlarge his spiritual life.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
All went well for a
time, but he
failed to
enlarge his
spiritual life.
14.
... failed to
fulfill their demands.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
There will be those who have
drifted into
indifference, those
filled with
self-
sufficiency who have
cut
themselves off, those who have
become prejudiced against
religion, and those who are
downright defiant because
God has
failed to
fulfill their
demands.
15.
... failed to
heed.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
Ominous warning -- which
I
failed to
heed.
16.
... failed to
help my banker friend understand.
BB p.138,
To Employers
I
wanted to
throw up my
hands in
discouragement, for I saw that I had
failed to
help my
banker friend understand.
17.
... failed to
hold us in check.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
Our
sound reasoning
failed to
hold us in
check.
18.
... failed to
perfect and enlarge his spiritual ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
For if an
alcoholic failed to
perfect and
enlarge his
spiritual life through
work and
self-
sacrifice for others,
he could not
survive the
certain trials and
low spots ahead.
19.
... failed to
persuade my broker friends to ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
I
failed to
persuade my
broker friends to
send me out
looking over
factories and
managements, but my
wife
and I
decided to go anyway.
20.
... failed to
practice the very precepts he ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Perhaps your
story will
help
him see where he has
failed to
practice the very
precepts he
knows so well.
21.
... failed to
recognize my truly exceptional abilities?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
22.
... failed to
see that though adult in ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had
failed to see that though
adult in
years we were still
behaving childishly,
trying to
turn everybody --
friends,
wives,
husbands, even the
world itself -- into
protective parents.
23.
... failed us?
BB p.68,
How It Works
Wasn't it because
self-
reliance failed us?
24.
... failed us,
we could be understanding and ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
And even if they
failed us, we could be
understanding and not too
seriously affected.
25.
... failed utterly.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Our
human resources, as
marshalled by the will, were not
sufficient; they
failed utterly.
26.
... failed, we
may chalk that up as ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Even when we have
tried hard
and
failed, we may
chalk that
up as one of the
greatest credits of all.
27.
... failed, work
with another alcoholic would save ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
This sometimes
nearly drove
me back to
drink, but I soon
found that when all other
measures failed,
work with another
alcoholic
would
save the
day.
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