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... pride.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
But in A.A. we slowly learned that something
had to be done about our vengeful resentments,
self-pity, and unwarranted pride.
2.
... pride?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
3.
... pride.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
4.
... pride and
fear of this sort turn ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
But the testimony of A.A.'s
who have really tried a moral inventory is that
pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.
5.
... pride and
go to it, illuminating every ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past.
6.
... pride and
his fear beat him back ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
7.
... pride and
our husbands' reputations.
BB p.105,
To Wives
8.
... pride and
prejudice fell from my eyes.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
9.
... pride and
vengefulness.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
10.
... pride became
the reverse side of that ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
11.
... pride could
be rewon.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Husbands and wives have
sometimes been obliged
to separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
12.
... pride --
did the same thing.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
13.
... pride, frustration,
self-pity, misunderstanding and fear.
BB p.104,
To Wives
14.
... pride, greed,
lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be
called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
15.
... pride have
too often done their worst.
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
16.
... pride heads
the procession.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
17.
... pride in
his own achievements.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Much of the everyday talk we hear, and a great deal of what we read, highlights man's pride in his own achievements.
18.
... pride in
reverse.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
For this is pride in reverse.
19.
... pride, leading
to self-justification, and always spurred ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
For pride, leading to self-justification, and
always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the
basic breeder of most human difficulties, the
chief block to true progress.
20.
Pride lures
us into making demands upon ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing
our God-given instincts.
21.
... pride might
be the smoke screen under ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Or anger and hurt pride might be the smoke screen under which we were hiding some of our defects
while we blamed others for them.
22.
... pride of
self unconsciously blind themselves to ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
This is because people
who are driven by pride of
self unconsciously blind themselves to their
liabilities.
23.
... pride; personal
sex relations; security (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
My wife -- misunderstands and nags; likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).
24.
Pride says,
"You need not pass this ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
25.
... pride, self-pity,
vanity and all the things ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with
pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above
selfishness or dishonesty.
26.
... pride steps
in to justify our excesses.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex, security, and society becomes the sole object of our lives, then
pride steps in to justify our excesses.
27.
... pride, the
confession of shortcomings which the ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling
of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.
28.
... pride to
hinder our making a list ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
These were some of the ways in which fear conspired with pride to hinder our making a list of all the people we had harmed.
29.
... pride to
the good lives we thought ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.
30.
... pride which
keeps you from accepting what ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which
keeps you from accepting
what is in this book, I feel
sorry for you.
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