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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
OFFER occurs
14 times
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1.
... offer.
BB p.87,
Into Action
Make use of what they offer.
2.
... offer.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
You are
sure to find someone
desperate enough to
accept with
eagerness what
you
offer.
3.
... offer.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
More often than not, it is
imperative that a
man's
brain be
cleared before he is
approached, as he has then a
better chance of
understanding and
accepting what we have to
offer.
4.
... offer a
solution.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
But you may
talk to him about the
hopelessness of
alcoholism because you
offer a
solution.
5.
... offer assistance.
BB p.78,
Into Action
6.
... offer full
answers to age-old perplexities, but ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
7.
Offer him
friendship and fellowship.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
8.
... offer his
proof in a statement like ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He will usually
offer his
proof in a
statement like
this: "
Sure, I was
beaten,
absolutely licked.
9.
... offer it
as the last word on ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
By no
means do we
offer it as
the
last word on this
subject, but so far as we are
concerned, it has
worked
with us.
10.
... offer, it
should be pointed out that ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
If your
man accepts your
offer, it should be
pointed
out that
physical treatment is but a
small part of the
picture.
11.
... offer myself
to Thee -- to build with ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Many of us said to our
Maker, as we
understood Him: "
God, I
offer myself to
Thee -- to
build with me and to do with me as
Thou wilt.
12.
... offer them.
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.
13.
... offer them
satisfactions of similar worth and ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
If they cannot have this
kind of
happiness, can
A.A. offer them
satisfactions of
similar worth and
durability?
14.
... offer you
any one of a hundred ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
If you
ask him why he
started on that
last bender, the
chances are he
will
offer you any one of a
hundred alibis.
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