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... pride.
BB
Bill's Story, pp.7-8
2.
... pride.
12&12
Step Four, p.47
But in A.A. we slowly learned that something had
to be done about our vengeful resentments, self-pity, and unwarranted pride.
3.
... pride?
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
4.
... pride --
all led to the bottle.
12&12
Contents (Step Ten), p.8
5.
... pride and
fear of this sort turn ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
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.
6.
... pride and
go to it, illuminating every ...
BB
Into Action, p.75
We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past.
7.
... pride and
his fear beat him back ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
8.
... pride and
our husbands' reputations.
BB
To Wives, p.105
9.
... pride and
prejudice fell from my eyes.
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
10.
... pride and
vengefulness.
12&12
Step Ten, p.91
11.
... pride became
the reverse side of that ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
12.
... pride could
be rewon.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
Husbands and wives have sometimes been obliged to
separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
13.
... pride --
did the same thing.
12&12
Step Ten, p.90
14.
... pride, frustration,
self-pity, misunderstanding and fear.
BB
To Wives, p.104
15.
... pride, greed,
lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
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.
16.
... pride have
too often done their worst.
12&12
Step Four, p.51
17.
... pride heads
the procession.
12&12
Step Four, p.48
18.
... pride in
his own achievements.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
Much of the everyday talk we hear, and a great deal of what we read, highlights man's pride in his own achievements.
19.
... pride in
reverse.
12&12
Step Four, p.45
For this is pride in reverse.
20.
... pride, leading
to self-justification, and always spurred ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
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.
21.
Pride lures
us into making demands upon ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing
our God-given instincts.
22.
... pride might
be the smoke screen under ...
12&12
Step Five, p.59
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.
23.
... pride of
self unconsciously blind themselves to ...
12&12
Step Four, p.46
This is because people who
are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their liabilities.
24.
... pride; personal
sex relations; security (fear).
BB
How It Works, p.65
My wife -- misunderstands and nags;
likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).
25.
Pride says,
"You need not pass this ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
26.
... pride, self-pity,
vanity and all the things ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
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.
27.
... pride steps
in to justify our excesses.
12&12
Step Four, p.49
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.
28.
... pride, the
confession of shortcomings which the ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.25
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.
29.
... pride to
hinder our making a list ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
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.
30.
... pride to
the good lives we thought ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.
31.
... pride which
keeps you from accepting what ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
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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