From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... good.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
2.
... good.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
3.
... good.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
If you have developed a high confidence in him, and
his temperament and problems are close to your
own, then such a choice will be good.
4.
... good.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be those to whom
we can make only partial restitution, lest complete disclosures
do them or others more harm than good.
5.
... good.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
6.
... good.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
In consternation, we saw ourselves getting married to all kinds of enterprises,
some good and some not so good.
7.
... good.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
These adventures implanted a deep-rooted conviction that in
no circumstances could
we endorse any related enterprise, no matter how good.
8.
... good.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
9.
... good.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
10.
... good.
BB p.60,
How It Works
On that basis we are almost
always in collision
with something or somebody, even though our motives are good.
11.
... good.
BB p.78,
Into Action
12.
... good.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
This is all to the good.
13.
... good.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
But be sure you are on solid
spiritual ground before you start and that your
motive in going is thoroughly good.
14.
... good.
BB p.112,
To Wives
15.
... good.
BB p.118,
To Wives
16.
... good.
BB p.146,
To Employers
17.
... good.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
18.
... good A.A.,
moves -- let us say -- to ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
19.
... good account.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
20.
... good acts
are there for us to ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
21.
... good acts,
but often they are based ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
Such prayers, of course, are fundamentally good acts, but often they are based upon a supposition that we know
God's will for the person for whom we pray.
22.
... good and
all, and sincerely feel that ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
But if you really and truly
want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you.
23.
... good and
bad.
BB p.76,
Into Action
When ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.
24.
... good and
drunk then.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.
25.
... good and
I have regained my self-respect ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
26.
... good and
if he would go to ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
Then let his family or a friend ask him if he wants to quit for good and if he would go to any extreme to do so.
27.
... good and
some not so good.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
In consternation, we saw ourselves getting married to all kinds of enterprises,
some good and some not so good.
28.
... good and
useful purpose is to be ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
So we think that unless
some good and useful purpose is to be served, past occurrences should
not be discussed.
29.
... good as
can be expected in these ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
30.
... good as
far as it went, but ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
31.
... good at
this stage.
BB p.113,
To Wives
32.
... good beginning.
BB p.71,
How It Works
If you have already made a
decision, and an inventory of your grosser
handicaps, you have made
a good beginning.
33.
... good bit
of travel between East and ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
There is a good bit of travel between East and West and we foresee a great increase in this helpful
interchange.
34.
... good business.
BB p.141,
To Employers
35.
... good, but
in a few weeks he ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
36.
... good, but
it isn't good enough.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
37.
... good can
come from them if we ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
But in the longer run we clearly realize that these
are only the pains of growing up, and nothing but good can come from them if we turn more and more to the entire Twelve Steps for the answers.
38.
... good can
come to any alcoholic who ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating weakness
and all its consequences.
39.
... good causes
and all connected with them ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
For this reason, some very
good causes and all connected with them suffered unjust criticism from A.A. groups.
40.
... good character
was desirable, but obviously good ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
True, most of us thought
good character was desirable, but obviously good character was something
one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.
41.
... good character
was something one needed to ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
True, most of us thought
good character was desirable, but obviously good character was something
one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.
42.
... good characters
will be revived the moment ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
43.
... good cheer.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
We have seen A.A.'s suffer lingering and fatal illness with little complaint, and often in good cheer.
44.
... good chunk
of our firm's money, whether ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Suppose, for instance,
that we have drunk up a good chunk of our firm's money, whether by "borrowing" or
on a heavily padded expense account.
45.
... good church
member.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
Upon hearing this, our friend was somewhat relieved, for he reflected that, after all,
he was a good church member.
46.
... good conscience.
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have
received and sleep in
good conscience.
47.
... good doctor
now sees many men who ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
48.
... good doctor
or psychiatrist.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist.
49.
... good doctor
or psychiatrist can tell you ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
50.
... good doctor
should always be consulted.
BB p.114,
To Wives
When they become too dangerous, we think the kind thing is to lock them up, but of course a good doctor should always be consulted.
51.
... good, does
it?
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
Doesn't sound too good, does
it?
52.
... good earning
capacity, was an alcoholic of ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman
of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.
53.
... good effect.
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.
54.
... good effect
that the doctor agreed to ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
And with such good effect that the doctor agreed to a test among his patients and certain other alcoholics from a clinic
which he attends.
55.
... good enough.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
56.
... good enough
for us.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
57.
... good evidence,
but no perfect visual proof.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Everybody nowadays,
believes in scores of assumptions for which there is good evidence, but no perfect visual proof.
58.
... good fellows
craving attention and companionship, but ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Either we were shy, and dared not draw near others, or we were apt to be noisy good fellows craving attention and companionship, but never getting it -- at least to our way of thinking.
59.
... good for
him, and it sometimes creates ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
60.
... good for
individuals with many different lifestyles, ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
The basic principles of
the A.A. program, it appears, hold good for individuals with many different lifestyles, just as the program has brought recovery to those of many different nationalities.
61.
... good, for
not one drinker in a ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
We would not even do the cause of temperate drinking any good, for not one drinker in a thousand likes to be told anything about alcohol by
one who hates it.
62.
... good for
the most alcoholics.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Let it be noted, too, that
they were almost always concerned with ways to make A.A. more effective, how to do
the most good for the most alcoholics.
63.
... good for
the wife as for the ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
64.
... good for
us.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
65.
... good fortune
came our way, we indulged ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
When temporary good fortune came our way, we indulged ourselves in fantasies
of still greater victories over people and circumstances.
66.
Good generalship
may decide that the problem ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
Good generalship may decide that the problem be
attacked on the flank rather than risk a face-to-face combat.
67.
... good, he
has a fine home, is ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
His income is good, he has a
fine home, is happily married and the father of promising children of college age.
68.
... good home
and religious training had given ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
69.
... good idea
if we continue to keep ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
They say to one another, "Perhaps it would
be a good idea if we continue to keep a firm hand on A.A. in this town.
70.
... good ideas
are simple, and this concept ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was
the keystone of the new and
triumphant arch through which we passed to
freedom.
71.
... good if
you point that out and ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
72.
... good, in
his case they did not ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's
telling him that while his
religious convictions were very
good, in his case they did not
spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.
73.
... good; in
others it seemed impossibly bad.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
74.
... good in
the first place.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
75.
... good in
the speaking, but it still ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
This brave philosophy,
wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work?
76.
... good indeed,
but it is bound to ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
More sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life.
77.
... good intent,
these folks declared that the ...
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
With perfectly good intent, these folks declared that the principle of anonymity
was horse-and-buggy stuff, something appropriate to A.A.'s pioneering days.
78.
Good intentions,
good thoughts, and good acts ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
79.
... good, is
exempt from these troubles.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
80.
... good is
the enemy of the best?
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
'Bill, haven't you often said right here in this meeting that sometimes the good is the enemy of the best?
81.
... good it'll
do.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
82.
... good job.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
83.
Good judgment,
a careful sense of timing, ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
Good judgment, a careful sense of timing, courage, and prudence -- these are the qualities we shall need when we take Step Nine.
84.
Good judgment
will suggest that we ought ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
85.
... good list
of such defects as these, ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Nearly anyone could submit a good list of such defects as these, and few of us
would seriously think of
giving them up, at least until they cause us excessive misery.
86.
... good lives
we thought we led before ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.
87.
... good living.
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living.
88.
... good living
is the theme of A.A.'s ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.
89.
... good living;
therefore the joy of good ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.
90.
... good look
at where we stand now, ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
It ought to be followed
by a good look at where we stand now, and a further look at what might happen in our lives were we able to move closer to the ideal we have
been trying to glimpse.
91.
... good look
in the mirror ought to ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
92.
... "Good luck
and God bless you!"
BB p.121,
To Wives
93.
... good man's
fault.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Those who did would sometimes assure us that,
after all, a lively bender was only a good man's fault.
94.
... good measure,
we add dramatic descriptions of ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
Then, for good measure, we
add dramatic descriptions of that part
of our drinking behavior which our friends
probably know about anyhow.
95.
... good men.
BB p.148,
To Employers
96.
... 'good men
of religion' were still killing ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
How we loved to shout the damaging fact that millions of the 'good men of religion' were still killing one another off in the name of God.
97.
... good motives
and reasons when we really ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
98.
... good nature
and lack of self-consciousness will ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
99.
... good natured
contempt of some church folk ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance
pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the
preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke
of these things just before he died; these recollections welled
up from the past.
100.
... good-naturedly at
his childhood dream.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
As he gets older and sees the impossibility
of this, he can smile good-naturedly at his childhood dream.
101.
... good, neither
to be used lightly or ...
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.
102.
... good news.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
103.
... good news.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
104.
... good newspaper
copy, but little else.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
105.
... good number
will become true alcoholics after ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
106.
... good of
A.A." meet the most stubborn ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
He and all like him who "view
with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or,
worse still, laughter.
107.
... good old
days.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
108.
... good old
days will soon be back, ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
109.
... good one,
permeates human affairs from top ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom.
110.
... good ones.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
111.
... good or
great harm.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
As this tide offering top public approval swept in, we realized that it could do us incalculable good or great harm.
112.
... good people
notified my wife, who sent ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
113.
... good, perform
great deeds, and embody great ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
114.
... good place
to remember that inventory-taking is ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
115.
... good prayer.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
116.
... good public
relations man in our ranks, ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
117.
... good purpose.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
Doctors are rightly loath to tell alcoholic patients the
whole story unless it will serve some good purpose.
118.
... good purpose
under all conditions?
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to good purpose under all conditions?
119.
... good purpose
until the habit of self-restraint ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For we can neither think
nor act to good purpose until the habit of self-restraint has become automatic.
120.
... good purpose,
we are willing to announce ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
When it will serve any good purpose, we are willing to
announce our convictions with tact and
common sense.
121.
... good question
indeed.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
122.
... good reason
for it.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
123.
... good reasons.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
124.
... good reasons
why we should do so.
BB p.72,
Into Action
We will be more reconciled to discussing ourselves
with another person when
we see good reasons why we should do so.
125.
... good results
of prayer are beyond question.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
126.
... good salesman.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
He is a good salesman.
127.
... Good Samaritan
every day, if need be.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
128.
... good sense.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
129.
... good sense,
and high character.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
130.
... good sense
and loving kindness is to ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
It may be that both will decide that the way of good sense and loving kindness is to let by-gones be by-gones.
131.
... Good service
leadership at all levels is ...
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
132.
... good-sized group
of so-called problem drinkers.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When A.A. was quite young, a number of eminent psychologists
and doctors made an exhaustive study of a
good-sized group of so-called problem drinkers.
133.
... good social,
business, or personal reason for ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
Therefore, ask yourself on each occasion, "Have I any good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place?
134.
... good soldier
is ne'er forgot Whether he ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
135.
... good spirits.
BB p.116,
To Wives
136.
... good stories.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
137.
... good stories
to this end.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
138.
... good talk
with the person most interested ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
If there is any indication that he wants
to stop, have a good talk with the person most interested in him -- usually his wife.
139.
... good temper
are most necessary.
BB p.111,
To Wives
140.
... good that
is in us all, even ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
141.
... good that
lie outside our synthetic knowledge.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
What with our ultra-modern
standards, our scientific approach to
everything, we are perhaps not well equipped to apply the powers of good that lie outside our synthetic knowledge.
142.
... good thing.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
143.
... good thing,
they believed, for the liquor ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
It would be a good thing,
they believed, for the liquor trade to show a sense of public responsibility.
144.
... good things
of life which we specified, ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
Sometimes it's because
God has not delivered us
the good things of life which we specified, as
a greedy child makes an impossible list for Santa Claus.
145.
... good thoughts,
and good acts are there ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
146.
... good time.
BB p.110,
To Wives
147.
... good time
provided, however, the alcoholic continues ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
These things will come to pass naturally and in good time provided, however, the
alcoholic continues
to demonstrate that he can be sober, considerate, and
helpful, regardless
of what anyone says or does.
148.
... good to
me, and is not too ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
149.
... good to
need God.
BB p.116,
To Wives
150.
... good to
the wife or parents whom ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
But he is yet a long way from making good to the wife or parents whom for years he has
so shockingly treated.
151.
... good townspeople.
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Men who had liquor shipped in from Boston or New York by express were looked upon with great distrust and disfavor by
most of the good townspeople.
152.
... good Twelfth
Step work possible, perhaps arranging ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
We can be the ones who take on
the unspectacular but important tasks that make good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps arranging for the
coffee and cake after the meetings, where so
many skeptical, suspicious newcomers
have found confidence
and comfort in the laughter and talk.
153.
... good use
by those who keep on ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
We know this because we see monotony, pain, and even calamity turned to good use by those who keep on trying to practice A.A.'s Twelve Steps.
154.
... good use
for others.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Suppose we tell you some of
the obstacles a family
will meet; suppose we suggest how they
may be avoided -- even converted to good use for others.
155.
... good, we
no longer dreaded a change ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
If our circumstances happened to be good, we no longer dreaded a change for the worse, for we had learned
that these troubles could be turned into great values.
156.
... good, we
realize that the sacrificial spirit ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Because A.A.'s Twelve Traditions repeatedly ask us to give up personal desires for the
common good, we realize that the sacrificial spirit -- well symbolized by anonymity -- is the foundation of them all.
157.
... good, were
about to apply to the ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
They understood that the elders, just to nail things down good, were about to apply to the Foundation
for a charter.
158.
... good we've
done these drunks.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
159.
... good whatever;
in fact, it was a ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Then we had been told that so far as alcohol is concerned, self-confidence was no good whatever; in fact, it was a total liability.
160.
... good wife.
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
161.
... good will
result, but the surface of ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
If we keep on the way we are going there is little doubt that much good will result, but the surface of
the problem would hardly
be scratched.
162.
... good will
than in our talk of ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
He is going to be more interested in a demonstration of good will than in our talk of spiritual discoveries.
163.
... good will
to men.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.
164.
... good will
toward all men, even our ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and
good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.
165.
... good with
such funds, and so divert ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
The pressure of that fat treasury would surely tempt the board to invent all kinds of schemes to do good with such funds, and so divert A.A. from its primary purpose.
166.
... good women,
capable of being nicer if ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
We thought, on the whole,
we were pretty good women, capable of being nicer if our husbands stopped drinking.
167.
... good works.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
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