From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
Click
to display the full page from the Big Book1.
... prove a
blessing!
BB p.116,
To Wives
2.
... prove a
blessing to him.
BB p.141,
To Employers
3.
... prove a
recovery rate of 50% to ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Any therapeutic or philosophic procedure
which can prove a recovery
rate of 50% to 60% must merit our consideration."
4.
... prove a
straight line is the shortest ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not prove life in the
sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.
5.
... prove exceptionally
useful to business men everywhere.
BB p.136,
To Employers
6.
... prove groundless?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
7.
... prove his
pet theory wrong.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as
obstinately as the scientist who refused to
perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong.
8.
... prove life
in the sense that you ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not prove life in the
sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.
9.
... prove more
solid and formidable for these ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
The roadblocks of indifference, fancied
self-sufficiency, prejudice, and defiance
often prove more solid and formidable for these people than any erected by the unconvinced agnostic
or even the militant atheist.
10.
... prove so
convincing that no further authentication ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
For them, we hope these pages
will prove so convincing that no further authentication will be
necessary.
11.
... prove that
one alcoholic could affect another ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
12.
... prove the
best bet.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
13.
... prove themselves
exceptions to the rule, therefore ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.
14.
... prove this.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
15.
... prove to
be the spearhead of a ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Why, we thought, our Society of Alcoholics Anonymous might prove to be
the spearhead of a new spiritual advance!
16.
... prove to
be well-intentioned unconscious rationalizations.
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
17.
... prove to
the world I was important.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
18.
... prove we
could drink like other people.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been
characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
The A.A. Preamble, copyright ©
The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.
Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or
endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.
Copyright © 2005-2012, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.