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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... religious.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Almost no
recovery from
alcoholism has ever been brought about by the
world's
best professionals, whether
medical or
religious.
2.
... religious.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Of
necessity there will have to be
discussion of
matters medical,
psychiatric,
social, and
religious.
3.
... religious.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Some of us have been
violently anti-
religious.
4.
... religious.
BB p.77,
Into Action
It is
seldom wise to
approach an
individual,
who still
smarts from our
injustice to him, and
announce that we have
gone
religious.
5.
... religious affiliation,
we include Catholics, Protestants, Jews, ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
6.
... religious affiliations
will find here nothing disturbing ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
Those having
religious affiliations will find here
nothing disturbing to
their
beliefs or
ceremonies.
7.
... religious all
her life, that she doesn't ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
He may tell
mother, who has been
religious all her
life, that she
doesn't
know what it's all about, and that she had
better get his
brand of
spirituality while there is
yet time.
8.
... religious and
racial difference.
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
9.
... religious awoke
to the limitations of this ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
Many of us who had
thought ourselves
religious awoke to the
limitations of this
attitude.
10.
... religious backgrounds.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
11.
... religious beliefs
which remained barren because we ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
We could
actually have
earnest religious beliefs which
remained barren because we were still
trying to
play God ourselves.
12.
... religious bodies,
but most of us favor ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
Not all of us
join religious
bodies, but most of us
favor such
memberships.
13.
... religious bodies
our members identify themselves with ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
We
think it no
concern of
ours what
religious bodies
our
members identify
themselves with as
individuals.
14.
... religious bodies,
we sometimes select and memorize ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
If not
members of
religious
bodies, we sometimes
select and
memorize a few
set prayers which
emphasize the
principles we have been
discussing.
15.
... religious body.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Though the
family has no
religious connections, they
may
wish to make
contact
with or take
membership in a
religious body.
16.
... religious bores?
BB p.77,
Into Action
Why
lay ourselves
open to being
branded fanatics or
religious bores?
17.
... religious connection,
we may still do well ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
Though we have no
religious connection, we may still do well to
talk with someone
ordained by
an
established religion.
18.
... religious connection
which emphasizes meditation will return ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
It is to be
hoped that every
A.A. who has a
religious connection which
emphasizes meditation
will
return to the
practice of that
devotion
as
never before.
19.
... religious connections,
they may wish to make ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Though the
family has no
religious connections, they
may
wish to make
contact
with or take
membership in a
religious body.
20.
... religious convictions
were very good, in his ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
This
hope, however, was
destroyed by the
doctor's
telling him that while his
religious convictions were
very
good, in his
case they
did not
spell the
necessary vital spiritual experience.
21.
... religious denomination.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Your
prospect may
belong
to a
religious denomination.
22.
... religious denomination
which requires a definite morning ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
23.
... religious denomination
which requires confession must, and ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
Those of us
belonging to a
religious denomination which
requires confession
must, and of
course, will
want to go to the
properly appointed authority
whose
duty it is to
receive
it.
24.
... religious dispute
had facilitated, made me sick.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
The
wars which had been
fought, the
burnings and
chicanery that
religious dispute had
facilitated, made me
sick.
25.
... religious duties,
or with the state of ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Why should we be
bothered with
theological abstractions and
religious duties, or with the
state of our
souls here or
hereafter?
26.
... religious education.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
27.
... religious education
and training may be far ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
His
religious education
and
training may be far
superior to yours.
28.
... religious enthusiast.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
He
becomes a
religious enthusiast.
29.
... Religious Experience,"
indicates a multitude of ways ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
30.
... religious experiences,
must be in the nature ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
31.
... religious feeling.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
Or,
going to the other
extreme, we had
wallowed
in
emotionalism and had
mistaken it for
true religious feeling.
32.
... religious friends
will be found further on ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Some of the
recommendations of
A.A.'s
early medical and
religious friends will be
found further on in this book.
33.
... religious grounds?
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
"Now,"
concludes the
oldtimer, "
suppose I'd
been
obliged to
talk to
this
man on
religious grounds?
34.
... religious idea
and a practical program of ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
They had told of a
simple religious idea and a
practical program of
action.
35.
... religious leanings.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
Get an
idea of his
behavior, his
problems,
his
background, the
seriousness of his
condition, and his
religious
leanings.
36.
... religious life
of the world is dependent ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
37.
... religious matters
than I.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
No
doubt you're
better taught in
religious matters than I.
38.
... religious members
call it "God-consciousness."
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Our more
religious members
call it "
God-
consciousness."
39.
... religious observance
is scrupulous.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
40.
... religious organization.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
41.
... religious people.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
It has been
validated in every
century, and it
characterizes the
lives
of all
spiritually centered and
truly religious people.
42.
... religious people
are right.
BB p.87,
Into Action
Be
quick to see where
religious people are
right.
43.
... religious people
I have known are wrong?"
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
But
later, alone in his
room,
he
asked himself this
question: "Is it
possible
that all the
religious people I have
known are
wrong?"
44.
... religious people,
much shocked by their son's ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
They were
deeply religious
people, much
shocked by their
son's
refusal to have anything
to do with the
church.
45.
... religious people,
we could feel superior to ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
In
belaboring the
sins
of some
religious people, we could
feel superior to all of them.
46.
... religious people
were right after all.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
It
began to
look as though
religious people were
right
after all.
47.
... religious people
will be helped by such ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Alcoholics who have
derided religious people will
be
helped by such
contacts.
48.
... religious person,
I have profound respect for ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Though not a
religious person, I have
profound respect for the
spiritual
approach in such
cases as
yours.
49.
... religious, political,
or reform argument among A.A. ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
It could almost be said that we were
born with it,
for, as one
oldtimer recently declared, "
Practically never have I
heard a
heated religious,
political, or
reform argument among
A.A. members.
50.
... religious practices
when, upon honest appraisal, we ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
We
supposed we had been
serious about
religious practices when, upon
honest appraisal, we
found we had been only
superficial.
51.
... religious sect
or other.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
You're
proselyting for some
damn religious sect or other.
52.
... religious societies
will be welcomed.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
53.
... religious training
had given us certain values.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Of
course, we were
glad that
good home and
religious training had
given us
certain values.
54.
... religious training,
such a list would set ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
55.
... religious views,
that I wanted him to ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
Finally, he saw that I wasn't
attempting to
change his
religious views, that I
wanted him to
find the
grace in his
own religion that would
aid his
recovery.
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