From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... given.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional
security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
2.
... given.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
3.
... given.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
4.
... given a
determined and persistent trial.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Then it is explained that other Steps of the A.A. program can be practiced with success
only when Step Three is given a determined and persistent trial.
5.
... given a
long-term meaning.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
6.
... given A.A.
their blessing.
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
7.
... given Alcoholics
Anonymous.
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
8.
... given an
opportunity to get well.
BB p.147,
To Employers
They often jeopardize
their own positions by trying to help serious drinkers who
should have been fired long
ago, or else given an opportunity to get well.
9.
... given and
therefore good, neither to be ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
We remembered always
that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed.
10.
... given by
John D. Rockefeller Jr. to ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
Speaking at a dinner
given by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to introduce Alcoholics
Anonymous to some of his friends, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick remarked:
11.
... given by
magazines and newspapers throughout the ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
In the next years alcoholics flocked to A.A. by tens of thousands, largely as the
result of excellent and
continuous publicity freely given by magazines and newspapers throughout
the world.
12.
... given five
thousand dollars to do with ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
13.
... given for
his family also.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
14.
... given help
is the very thing which ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.
15.
... given here
may be adapted to help ...
BB p.104,
To Wives (Note)
But many of the suggestions given here may be adapted to help the person who lives with a woman alcoholic -- whether she
is still drinking or is
recovering in A.A.
16.
... given him.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Alone now, he reflects that he may not be able to stay sober, or even alive, unless he passes on to other alcoholics what was so freely given him.
17.
... given in
this foreword describe the Fellowship ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
18.
... given instincts.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing
our God-given instincts.
19.
... given me.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands of hopeless alcoholics who might be glad to have what had been so freely given me.
20.
... given me
a special token of appreciation?
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
I fancied myself a leader, for had not the men of
my battery given me a special token of appreciation?
21.
... given offense.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human relations, and having decided exactly what personality traits in us
injured and disturbed
others, we can now commence to ransack memory for the people to whom
we have given offense.
22.
... given our
emotions violent twists which have ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
At the time of these occurrences, they may actually have given our emotions violent twists which have since discolored our personalities and altered our lives for the worse.
23.
... given purpose
and direction to millions.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We have learned that whatever the human frailties of various faiths may be, those faiths have given purpose and direction to
millions.
24.
... given set
of conditions.
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
But all of them do require a complete willingness
to make amends as fast and as far as may be possible in a given set of conditions.
25.
... given showing
how we recovered.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
26.
... given strength
and direction to do the ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
Reminding ourselves
that we have decided to go to
any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we
be given strength and direction to do the right
thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.
27.
... given surely
brings a full return, the ...
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.
28.
... given the
courage to declare each A.A. ...
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.
29.
... given the
grace by which we may ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of
His will that we can have for that day, and that we be given the grace by which we may carry it
out.
30.
... given the
power to help others.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
31.
... given the
power to reason, to examine ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our senses, and
to draw conclusions.
32.
... given their
needs.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
New acquaintances who
know nothing of alcoholism might be made
and thoughtful considerations given
their needs.
33.
... given them
up.
BB p.113,
To Wives
34.
... given these
doctors a fair break.
BB p.73,
Into Action
35.
... given to
any other human being without ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves, made amends to those we had harmed, or freely given to any other human being without any demand for reward.
36.
... given to
those ever-urgent questions, "How can ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the
best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can
A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"
37.
... given us?
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
38.
... given us
certain values.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
39.
... given us
or, if you prefer, "a ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
40.
... given us,
we felt it perfectly natural ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
And considering the rough deal life had given us, we felt it perfectly natural that we were sensitive.
41.
... given us
without any thought or effort ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part.
42.
... given whatever
we need to take care ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
We usually conclude the
period of meditation
with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given
whatever we need to take care of such problems.
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