From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... love.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
2.
... love.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
But its object is always the same: to improve our conscious contact with God, with His grace, wisdom, and love.
3.
... Love.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
4.
... love.
BB p.83,
Into Action
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.
5.
... love.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
6.
... love affairs.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
7.
... love affairs
with other men.
BB p.105,
To Wives
8.
... love and
devotion did not straighten him ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
9.
... love and
loyalty could not cure our ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
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 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.
11.
... love and
service with those about us.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
12.
... love, and
spiritual understanding.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
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 p.63,
How It Works
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 p.125,
The Family Afterward
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 p.112,
Step Twelve
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 p.84,
Into Action
17.
... love, applause,
war; moments sublime with intervals ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
18.
... love are
A.A.'s disciplinarians; we need no ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
19.
... love are
the keynotes by which we ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Courtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we may come
into harmony with practically anybody.
20.
... love are
the watchwords.
BB p.118,
To Wives
21.
... love as
the real and eternal things ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
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.
22.
... love because
they need to be "taught ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish.
23.
... love can
only invite domination or revulsion ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
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.
24.
... love, change
of environment, or the warning ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
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.
25.
... love each
other.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
It occurred to us that we could take what we had into the factories and cause laborers and capitalists to love each other.
26.
... love everybody.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
27.
... love follows
at first sight, that difficulties ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
It is only where "boy meets girl on A.A. campus," and love follows at first sight, that difficulties
may develop.
28.
... love for
our fellows actually means.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
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.
29.
... love, forgiveness,
harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, ...
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.
30.
... love freely
given surely brings a full ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
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.
31.
... love God
and call Him by name.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
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.
32.
... love him.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
33.
... love in
such persons, we thought.
BB p.107,
To Wives
34.
... love, it
is not strange that our ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
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.
35.
... love of
a woman who has gone ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
36.
... love of
God and man we understood ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
37.
... love of
man and God the daily ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.
38.
... love of
our children for their father.
BB p.106,
To Wives
39.
... love of
which he had thought himself ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
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.
40.
... love of
which these magnificent words are ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
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.
41.
... love or
got none at all.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
42.
... love, or
worship.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
43.
... love, superhuman
strength and direction, I became ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
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.
44.
... love, than
to be loved.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
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.
45.
... love than
to be loved," we will ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
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.
46.
... love that
has no price tag on ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
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.
47.
... love --
that where there is wrong, 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.
48.
... love the
kind of life such obedience ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
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.
49.
... love the
whole pattern of living as ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
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?
50.
... love their
families, how could they be ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
51.
... love them.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
We really love them.
52.
... "Love thy
neighbor as thyself."
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
53.
... love under
his own roof.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and
love under his own roof.
54.
... love was
healthy, and that it would ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was
healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would.
55.
... love with
their lips, and believe what ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
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?
56.
... love you
with his better self.
BB p.108,
To Wives
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