From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... quickly.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Though we may at first be
startled to realize
that God knows all about us,
we are apt to get used to that quite quickly.
2.
... quickly and
was dead within four years.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... quickly as
many despairing alcoholics as they ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
4.
... quickly as
we can.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
At the very least, we shall have to come to grips with some of our worst character defects and take action toward their removal as
quickly as we can.
5.
... quickly assure
you that A.A.'s tread innumerable ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
6.
... quickly diagnose
yourself.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
7.
... quickly disappear.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
In the midst of an understanding and sympathetic family,
these vagaries of dad's spiritual infancy will quickly disappear.
8.
... quickly disenchanted
with sweeping floors and brewing ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
We tried volunteers,
who were quickly disenchanted with sweeping floors and brewing coffee seven days a week.
9.
... quickly fill
with new purpose and meaning, ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled,
to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in
full citizenship, and
above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance
of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
10.
... quickly if
we have harmed anyone.
BB p.84,
Into Action
11.
... quickly in
others, but only slowly in ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
12.
... quickly or
easily become ready to aim ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and
sundry ideas of what will get us by.
13.
... quickly reveal
themselves that the pain will ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
But if a willing start is
made, then the great advantages of doing this
will so quickly reveal themselves that
the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.
14.
... quickly sensed
that he was quite in ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
15.
... quickly, sometimes
slowly.
BB p.84,
Into Action
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