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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FIT occurs
10 times
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1.
... fit all
such dilemmas.
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
Of
course, there is no
pat answer which can
fit all such
dilemmas.
2.
... fit and
belong in God's scheme of ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
3.
... fit, he
ought to step into them ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Having
found the
shoes that
fit, he ought to
step into
them and
walk with new
confidence that he is at
last on the
right track.
4.
... fit in
with meditation?
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
And how does it
fit in with
meditation?
5.
... fit more
or less into both classifications.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
But just as often some of us will
fit more or
less into both
classifications.
6.
... fit of
anger.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
His
wife is one of those
persons who really
feels
there is something rather
sinful about these
commodities, so she
nagged, and her
intolerance finally
threw
him into a
fit of
anger.
7.
... fit ourselves
to be of maximum service ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
Our
real purpose is to
fit ourselves to be of
maximum service to
God and the people about us.
8.
... fit spiritual
condition.
BB p.85,
Into Action
That is how we
react so
long
as we
keep in
fit spiritual condition.
9.
... fit us
exactly.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We, who have been through the
wringer, have to
admit if we
substituted
alcoholism for
jay-
walking, the
illustration would
fit us
exactly.
10.
... fit, we
can do all sorts of ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
Assuming we are
spiritually fit, we can do
all
sorts of things
alcoholics are not
supposed to do.
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