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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... greater challenge
in the lesser and more ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
But also like others, we often
discover a
greater challenge in the
lesser and more
continuous problems of
life.
2.
... greater confusion.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
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 p.71,
Step Seven
When we
seemed to be
succeeding, we
drank to
dream still
greater dreams.
4.
... greater feats
to be done; in defeat ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
In
fitful successes we
boasted of
greater feats to be done; in
defeat we
were
bitter.
5.
... greater furors
were provoked when A.A. members ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
6.
... greater hold
on father.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
If the
family persists
in
criticism, this
fallacy may take a still
greater hold on
father.
7.
... greater humility
is the foundation principle of ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
8.
... greater importance
than the weight we could ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
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.
9.
... greater or
less degree, everybody is infected ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
To a
greater or
less degree,
everybody is
infected with it.
10.
... greater responsibility
and trust, we try to ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
11.
... greater service
to alcoholic sufferers and perhaps ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
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.
12.
... greater than
himself.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
The
reader may still
ask why
he should
believe in a
Power greater than himself.
13.
... greater than
himself.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
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.
14.
... greater than
himself.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Every one of them has
gained access to, and
believes in,
a
Power greater than himself.
15.
... greater than
himself and that he live ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
The
main thing is that he be
willing to
believe in a
Power greater than himself and
that he
live by
spiritual
principles.
16.
... greater than
in a Twelfth Step job ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
Practically every
A.A. member declares that no
satisfaction has been
deeper and no
joy greater than in a
Twelfth Step job well done.
17.
... greater than
myself.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I had always
believed in a
Power greater than myself.
18.
... greater than
myself.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
It was only a
matter of being
willing to
believe in a
Power greater than myself.
19.
... greater than
myself?"
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
"Do I now
believe, or am I even
willing to
believe, that
there is a
Power greater than
myself?"
20.
... greater than
myself, but I certainly have ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
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.
21.
... greater than
ourselves.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
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.
22.
... greater than
ourselves.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
We had to find a
power by which we could
live, and it had to be a
Power
greater than ourselves.
23.
... greater than
ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
For
faith in a
Power greater than ourselves, and
miraculous demonstrations of that
power in
human lives, are
facts as
old as
man himself.
24.
... greater than
ourselves could restore us to ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
"
Came to
believe that a
Power greater than ourselves
could
restore us to
sanity."
25.
... greater than
ourselves could restore us to ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
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.
26.
... greater than
ourselves could restore us to ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
2.
Came to
believe that a
Power greater than ourselves
could
restore us to
sanity.
27.
... greater than
ourselves is the essence of ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Most of us
think this
awareness of a
Power greater than ourselves is the
essence of
spiritual experience.
28.
... greater than
ourselves, we commenced to get ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
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.
29.
... greater than
themselves.
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
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.
30.
... greater than
themselves, if they are to ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
In
nearly all
cases, their
ideals must be
grounded in a
power greater than themselves, if they are to
re-
create their
lives.
31.
... greater than
themselves, to take a certain ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
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.
32.
... greater than
you, who have not even ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
In this
respect they are
certainly a
power greater than you, who have not even
come close to a
solution.
33.
... greater than
yourself.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
You
forget that you have just now
tapped a
source of
power much
greater than
yourself.
34.
... greater than
yourself which will solve your ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Its main object is to
enable you to
find a
Power greater than
yourself which will
solve
your
problem.
35.
... greater variety
of suffering alcoholics.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
36.
... greater victories
over people and circumstances.
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.
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