From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... hope.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Nevertheless, I still
thought I could control
the situation, and there were periods of sobriety which
renewed my wife's hope.
2.
... hope.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
3.
... hope.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
4.
... hope.
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength,
and hope.
5.
... hope and
new courage to many a ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
He may bring new hope and new courage to many a priest, minister, or rabbi, who gives his all to minister to our troubled
world.
6.
... hope for
himself.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
7.
... hope, however,
was destroyed by the doctor's ...
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.
8.
... hope is
that many alcoholic men and ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing."
9.
... hope is
that nothing will ever cut ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
We are delighted with this dependence; our main hope is that nothing will ever cut off the supply of current.
10.
... hope is
that when this chip of ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Our hope is that when this chip of a book is launched on the world tide of alcoholism, defeated drinkers will seize upon it, to follow its suggestions.
11.
... hope is
the maintenance and growth of ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth
of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment
is infinitely grave.
12.
... hope it
contains all you will need ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
13.
... hope it
strikes home to thousands like ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
14.
... hope, light,
and joy to every human ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
Then he asked for the grace
to bring love, forgiveness, harmony,
truth, faith, hope, light, and joy to every human being he could.
15.
... hope, more
useful than the life I ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before.
16.
... hope no
one else will be prejudiced ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Sometimes this was a tedious process; we hope no one else will be prejudiced for as long as
some of us were.
17.
... hope no
one will consider these self-revealing ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
18.
... hope of
his recovery.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
This is repeated over and
over, and unless this person can experience an
entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
19.
... hope of
relief, voluntarily incarcerated myself at ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
By this time I was beginning to pay very dearly physically and, in hope of
relief, voluntarily
incarcerated myself
at least a dozen times in one of the local sanitariums.
20.
... hope of
the same result respecting any ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that degree of humility could enable us to
find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be
hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly
have.
21.
... hope only
that he will try to ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he
escapes his own difficulties.
22.
... hope our
suggestions will help you plug ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
23.
... hope rise
as we discuss his alcoholic ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Many times we talk to a new man and watch his hope rise as we discuss his alcoholic problems and explain our
fellowship.
24.
... hope that
Alcoholics Anonymous will help the ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous
will help the public to a better realization of the gravity of the alcoholic
problem, but we shall be
of little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.
25.
... hope that
all those who have as ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no
answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
26.
... hope that
every alcoholic who journeys will ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Some day we hope that every alcoholic who journeys will find a Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous
at his destination.
27.
... hope "that
every alcoholic who journeys will ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Our earliest printing
voiced the hope "that every alcoholic who journeys will find the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous
at his destination.
28.
... hope --
that where there are shadows, I ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
"Lord, make me a channel of thy peace -- that where there is hatred, I may bring love -- that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness --
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -- that where
there is error, I may bring
truth -- that where there is doubt, I may bring faith -- that where there is despair, I may bring hope -- that where there are shadows, I may bring light -- that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
29.
... hope that
you may pause in reading ...
BB xii,
Preface
If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may
pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me"; or,
more important, "Yes, I've felt like that"; or, most important, "Yes, I believe this program can work for me too."
30.
... hope the
doctor will tell the patient ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
We hope the doctor will tell the patient the truth about his
condition, whatever
that happens to be.
31.
... hope these
pages will prove so convincing ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
For them, we hope these pages
will prove so convincing that no further authentication will be
necessary.
32.
... hope they'll
go to the grave with ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
33.
... hope this
book has answered some of ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
34.
... hope this
volume will inform and comfort ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
35.
... hope to
get a secondhand benefit.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
36.
... hope we
have made clear the distinction ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
37.
... hope we
were not true alcoholics.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
38.
... hope with
each other, in order to ...
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
39.
... hope with
each other that they may ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength
and hope with each other that they may solve their
common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
40.
... hope would
be through what we then ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
His alcoholic problem
was so complex, and his depression so great, that
we felt his only hope would be
through what we then called "moral psychology," and we doubted if even that would
have any effect.
41.
... hope you
are convinced now that God ...
BB p.71,
How It Works
42.
... hope your
employees may be put in ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
As our work spreads and our
numbers increase, we
hope your employees may
be put in personal contact with some of us.
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