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... greater challenge
in the lesser and more ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in the lesser and
more continuous problems of life.
2.
... greater confusion.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
Then we are hurt and confused when the advice is
rejected, or when it is accepted and brings still greater confusion.
3.
... greater dreams.
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
4.
... greater earnestness
than I had previously shown.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
5.
... greater feats
to be done; in defeat ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
6.
... greater furors
were provoked when A.A. members ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.167
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when
some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when
some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.
7.
... greater hold
on father.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
8.
... greater humility
is the foundation principle of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
Indeed, the attainment
of greater humility is the
foundation principle
of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps.
9.
... greater importance
than the weight we could ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
We conceive the survival
and spread of Alcoholics
Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.
10.
... greater or
less degree, everybody is infected ...
12&12
Step Six, p.67
11.
... greater responsibility
and trust, we try to ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
When by devoted service to
family, friends, business, or community we
attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and
trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.
12.
... greater service
to alcoholic sufferers and perhaps ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
The experiment of quitting for a period of time will be helpful, but we think we can render an even greater service to alcoholic sufferers and
perhaps to the medical fraternity.
13.
... greater than
himself.
BB
We Agnostics, p.48
14.
... greater than
himself.
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
In our personal stories
you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which
is greater than himself.
15.
... greater than
himself.
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
16.
... greater than
himself and that he live ...
BB
Working With Others, p.93
The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles.
17.
... greater than
in a Twelfth Step job ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.110
Practically every A.A. member declares that no satisfaction has been deeper and no joy greater than in a Twelfth Step job well done.
18.
... greater than
myself.
BB
Bill's Story, p.10
19.
... greater than
myself.
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
20.
... greater than
myself?"
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
21.
... greater than
myself, but I certainly have ...
12&12
Step Two, p.27
I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief
now.
22.
... greater than
ourselves.
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
23.
... greater than
ourselves.
12&12
Step Five, p.60
While the comment or advice of others may be by no means infallible, it is likely to
be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still so inexperienced in
establishing contact
with a Power greater than ourselves.
24.
... greater than
ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
25.
... greater than
ourselves could restore us to ...
BB
How It Works, p.59
26.
... greater than
ourselves could restore us to ...
12&12
Contents (Step Two), p.5
27.
... greater than
ourselves could restore us to ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
28.
... greater than
ourselves could restore us to ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we did
when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
29.
... greater than
ourselves is the essence of ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
Most of us think this awareness of a Power greater than ourselves is the essence of spiritual experience.
30.
... greater than
ourselves, we commenced to get ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
We found that as soon as we
were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in
a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced
to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which
is God.
31.
... greater than
themselves.
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, pp.567-568
With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with
their own conception of a
Power greater than themselves.
32.
... greater than
themselves, if they are to ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a power greater than themselves, if they
are to re-create their lives.
33.
... greater than
themselves, to take a certain ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
They flatly declare that
since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a
revolutionary change
in their way of living and thinking.
34.
... greater than
you, who have not even ...
12&12
Step Two, p.27
In this respect they are certainly a power greater than you, who have not even come close to a solution.
35.
... greater than
yourself.
BB
A Vision For You, p.163
36.
... greater than
yourself which will solve your ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem.
37.
... greater variety
of suffering alcoholics.
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
As the message of recovery has reached larger numbers of people, it has also touched the lives of a vastly greater variety of suffering alcoholics.
38.
... greater victories
over people and circumstances.
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
When temporary good fortune came our way, we indulged ourselves in fantasies of
still greater victories over people and circumstances.
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