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... Love.
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
2.
... love.
BB
Into Action, p.83
So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness
and love.
3.
... love.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
4.
... love.
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
5.
... love.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
But its object is always the same: to improve our conscious contact with God, with His grace, wisdom, and love.
6.
... love affairs.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.124
7.
... love affairs
with other men.
BB
To Wives, p.105
8.
... love and
devotion did not straighten him ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
9.
... love and
loyalty could not cure our ...
BB
To Wives, p.118
Another feeling we are very likely to entertain is one of resentment that love and loyalty could not cure our husbands of alcoholism.
10.
... love and
service.
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.
11.
... love and
service with those about us.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
12.
... love, and
spiritual understanding.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
If they sense these things,
they will not take so seriously his periods of crankiness, depression,
or apathy, which will disappear when there is tolerance, love, and spiritual understanding.
13.
... Love, and
Thy Way of life.
BB
How It Works, p.63
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.
14.
... love and
tolerance.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
We do talk about each other a great deal, but we almost invariably temper such talk by a spirit of love and tolerance.
15.
... love and
tolerance into our sometimes deranged ...
12&12
Step Twelve, pp.111-112
Can we bring the same spirit of love and tolerance into our sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group?
16.
Love and
tolerance of others is our ...
BB
Into Action, p.84
17.
... love, applause,
war; moments sublime with intervals ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.1
18.
... love are
A.A.'s disciplinarians.
12&12
Contents (Tradition Nine), p.12
19.
... love are
A.A.'s disciplinarians; we need no ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
20.
... love are
the keynotes by which we ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
Courtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we may come
into harmony with practically anybody.
21.
... love are
the watchwords.
BB
To Wives, p.118
22.
... love as
the real and eternal things ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.105
The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the
seeming evidence to the
contrary that surrounds
us in purely human affairs.
23.
... love because
they need to be "taught ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish.
24.
... love can
only invite domination or revulsion ...
12&12
Step Four, p.44
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection,
and love can only invite domination or revulsion
in the protectors themselves -- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the demands
which evoked them.
25.
... love, change
of environment, or the warning ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
If a sufficiently strong reason -- ill health, falling in love, change of environment, or
the warning of a doctor --
becomes operative, this
man can also stop or moderate, although he may find it difficult and troublesome and may even need medical attention.
26.
... love each
other.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.156
It occurred to us that we could take what we had into the factories and cause laborers and capitalists
to love each other.
27.
... love everybody.
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
28.
... love follows
at first sight, that difficulties ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
It is only where "boy meets girl on A.A. campus," and love follows at first sight, that difficulties
may develop.
29.
... love for
our fellows actually means.
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are
to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means.
30.
... love, forgiveness,
harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
Then he asked for the grace to
bring love, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, and joy to every human being he could.
31.
... love freely
given surely brings a full ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that
love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
32.
... love God
and call Him by name.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
From great numbers of such experiences, we could
predict that the doubter
who still claimed that he
hadn't got the "spiritual angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name.
33.
... love him.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
34.
... love in
such persons, we thought.
BB
To Wives, p.107
35.
... love, it
is not strange that our ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.151
Under these compulsions
of self-preservation, duty, and love, it is not strange that our Society has
concluded that it has but one high mission -- to carry the A.A. message to those who don't know there's a way out.
36.
... love of
a woman who has gone ...
BB
To Wives, p.119
37.
... love of
God and man we understood ...
12&12
Step Two, p.32
38.
... love of
man and God the daily ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.
39.
... love of
our children for their father.
BB
To Wives, p.106
40.
... love of
which he had thought himself ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
He finds himself in possession of a degree of
honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of
mind, and love of which he had
thought himself quite incapable.
41.
... love of
which these magnificent words are ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
Let us become willing to partake and be strengthened and lifted
up by the sheer spiritual power, beauty, and love of which these
magnificent words are
the carriers.
42.
... love or
got none at all.
12&12
Step Four, p.47
43.
... love, or
worship.
BB
We Agnostics, p.54
44.
... love, superhuman
strength and direction, I became ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.10
When they talked of a God personal to me, who was love,
superhuman strength
and direction, I became
irritated and my mind snapped shut against such a theory.
45.
... love, than
to be loved.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted -- to understand, than to be understood -- to love, than
to be loved.
46.
... love than
to be loved," we will ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
At these critical moments, if we remind ourselves that "it is better
to comfort than to be comforted, to understand
than to be understood, to love than to be loved," we will be following the intent of Step Eleven.
47.
Love that
has no price tag.
12&12
Contents (Step Twelve), p.8
48.
... love that
has no price tag on ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag
on it.
49.
... love --
that where there is wrong, I ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
"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.
50.
... love the
kind of life such obedience ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
So we of A.A. do obey spiritual principles, first because we must, and ultimately because we love the kind of life such obedience brings.
51.
... love the
whole pattern of living as ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
Can we love the whole pattern of living as eagerly as we do the small segment of it we discover
when we try to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
52.
... love their
families, how could they be ...
BB
To Wives, p.107
53.
... love them.
12&12
Step Six, p.66
We really love them.
54.
... "Love thy
neighbor as thyself."
BB
A Vision For You, p.153
55.
... love under
his own roof.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and
love under his own roof.
56.
... love was
healthy, and that it would ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.116
We found that dependence
upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and
love was healthy, and that it
would work where nothing else would.
57.
... love with
their lips, and believe what ...
12&12
Step Six, p.67
But how many men and women speak love with their lips, and believe what they say, so that
they can hide lust in a dark corner of their minds?
58.
... love you
with his better self.
BB
To Wives, p.108
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