From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... 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
4.
... greater earnestness
than I had previously shown.
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
5.
... greater feats
to be done; in defeat ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
6.
... greater furors
were provoked when A.A. members ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
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 p.129,
The Family Afterward
8.
... greater humility
is the foundation principle of ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
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 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.
10.
... greater or
less degree, everybody is infected ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
11.
... greater responsibility
and trust, we try to ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
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 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.
13.
... greater than
himself.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
14.
... 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.
15.
... greater than
himself.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
16.
... 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.
17.
... 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.
18.
... greater than
myself.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
19.
... greater than
myself.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
20.
... greater than
myself?"
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
21.
... 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.
22.
... 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.
23.
... greater than
ourselves.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
24.
... 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.
25.
... greater than
ourselves could restore us to ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
26.
... 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.
27.
... greater than
ourselves could restore us to ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
28.
... 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.
29.
... 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.
30.
... 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.
31.
... 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.
32.
... 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.
33.
... 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.
34.
... greater than
yourself.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
35.
... 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.
36.
... greater variety
of suffering alcoholics.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
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.
37.
... 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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