From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... ours.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
As an insurance against "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is
far more His success than ours.
2.
... ours.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
3.
... ours.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
We are greatly indebted
to the doctor in attendance there, for he, although it might prejudice his own work, has told us of his belief in ours.
4.
... ours alone.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
5.
... ours, and
an equal willingness to forgive ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
In all these situations we need self-restraint, honest analysis of what is involved, a willingness to admit when
the fault is ours, and an equal willingness to forgive when the fault is elsewhere.
6.
... ours are
not.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Unreasonable fear that
our instincts will not be
satisfied drives us to
covet the possessions
of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are
threatened, to be envious when the ambitions of others seem to be realized while ours are not.
7.
... ours for
the thinking.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Since we were brighter than most folks (so we thought), the spoils of victory would be
ours for the thinking.
8.
... ours has
made more material progress in ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
This world of ours has made more material progress in the
last century than in all
the millenniums which went before.
9.
... ours, not
the other man's.
BB p.67,
How It Works
10.
... ours were.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
That may be true of certain
nonalcoholic people
who, though drinking foolishly and heavily at
the present time, are able to stop or moderate, because their brains and bodies have not
been damaged as ours were.
11.
... ours what
religious bodies our members identify ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals.
12.
... ours who
were often doing thankless tasks ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Ignoring the fact that
these labors were not Twelfth Step jobs at all, the critics attacked as A.A. professionals these workers of ours who were often doing thankless tasks that no one else
could or would do.
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