From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... greatest assets
that our Society has.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
2.
... greatest credits
of all.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Even when we have tried hard and failed, we may chalk that up as one of the greatest credits of all.
3.
... greatest enemies
of us alcoholics are resentment, ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
4.
... greatest exertion
of will.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
All of us, without exception, pass through times when we can pray only with the greatest exertion of will.
5.
... greatest friends.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
6.
... greatest friends
our Fellowship will ever know.
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
In this prodigy of service, he was well assisted by Sister Ignatia at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio, one of the greatest friends our Fellowship
will ever know.
7.
... greatest need.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Having opened our channel
as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and
others are in the greatest
need.
8.
... greatest peace,
partnership, and brotherhood with all ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
Learning how to live in
the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men
and women, of whatever description, is a moving
and fascinating adventure.
9.
... greatest possession
you have -- the key to ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Cling to the thought that,
in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have
-- the key to life and happiness for others.
10.
... greatest protection.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
The Foundation(*) wrote
letters to practically every news outlet in North America, setting forth our public relations policy of attraction rather than promotion, and
emphasizing personal anonymity as A.A.'s greatest protection.
11.
... greatest reservoirs
of power known to man, ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist:
"This organization of Alcoholics Anonymous
calls on two of the greatest reservoirs of power known to man, religion and that instinct for association with one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'
12.
... greatest rewards
of meditation and prayer is ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is
the sense of belonging
that comes to us.
13.
... greatest safeguard
that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
We are sure that humility,
expressed by anonymity, is the greatest
safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous
can ever have.
14.
... greatest thing
we have been able to ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. John F. Stouffer, Chief Psychiatrist, Philadelphia General
Hospital, citing his experience with A.A., said: "The alcoholics we get here at Philadelphia General
are mostly those who cannot
afford private treatment, and A.A. is by far the greatest thing we have been able to offer them.
15.
... greatest workers
and intimate friends?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
How could we know that thousands of these sometimes frightening
people were to make astonishing recoveries and become our
greatest workers and intimate friends?
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