From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... patience.
BB p.111,
To Wives
2.
Patience and
good temper are most necessary.
BB p.111,
To Wives
3.
... patience and
good will toward all men, ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.
4.
... patience and
labor.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
To duplicate, with such
backing, what we have accomplished is only a matter of willingness,
patience and labor.
5.
... patience and
tolerance?
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Could we then foresee that troublesome people were
to become our principal
teachers of patience and
tolerance?
6.
... patience and
tolerance.
BB p.138,
To Employers
7.
... patience mothers
and wives have had with ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
8.
... patience of
our best friends to a ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
We've repeatedly strained the patience of our
best friends to a snapping point, and have brought out the very worst in those who didn't think much of us to begin with.
9.
... patience that
we would cheerfully grant a ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would
cheerfully grant a sick friend.
10.
... patience, tolerance,
kindliness and 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.
11.
Patience, tolerance,
understanding and love are the ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
12.
... patience will
make any difference.
BB p.108,
To Wives
We realize some men are thoroughly bad-intentioned, that no amount of patience will make any difference.
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