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SOBRIETY occurs
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[17 in BB ... 31 in 12&12 ... 1 in GV]
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1.
... sobriety.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
Ask them to
remember, when
they are
impatient, the
blessed fact of his
sobriety.
2.
... sobriety.
BB
To Wives, p.118
Your
husband knows he
owes you
more than
sobriety.
3.
... sobriety.
BB
To Wives, p.119
The
fact is that he should
work
with
other people to
maintain his
own sobriety.
4.
... sobriety.
BB
To Employers, p.146
This
work is
necessary to
maintain his
sobriety.
5.
... sobriety.
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
He
will presently try the
old game again, for he isn't
happy about his
sobriety.
6.
... sobriety.
12&12
Contents (Step One), p.5
Relation of
humility to
sobriety.
7.
... sobriety.
12&12
Step Three, p.39
8.
... sobriety.
12&12
Step Five, p.62
9.
... sobriety.
12&12
Step Nine, p.83
There
will be
those who
ought to be
dealt with
just as
soon as we
become reasonably confident that we can
maintain our
sobriety.
10.
... sobriety.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
Here we
begin to
practice all
Twelve Steps of the
program in our
daily lives so that we and
those about us may
find emotional sobriety.
11.
... sobriety?
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
12.
... sobriety.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.151
The only
thing that
matters
is that he is an
alcoholic who has
found a
key to
sobriety.
13.
... sobriety.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
But as he
calmed down, he
began to
listen while I
tried to
show him that
humility was the
main key to
sobriety.
14.
... sobriety.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.154
15.
... sobriety.
Grapevine
Preamble
16.
... sobriety and
a contented, useful life.
12&12
Step Three, p.39
17.
... sobriety and
a mighty happy life.'
12&12
Tradition Five, p.152
"Of
course, my
answer was
'My
own sobriety and a
mighty happy life.'
18.
... sobriety, and
emotional turmoil before serenity.
12&12
Step Ten, pp.93-94
How
heartily we
A.A.'s can
agree with him, for we
know that
the
pains of
drinking had
to
come before sobriety, and
emotional turmoil before serenity.
19.
... sobriety, and
often the difference between life ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
20.
... sobriety and
peace of mind.
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
21.
... sobriety and
peace of mind than this ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
22.
... sobriety and
peace of mind will still ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
23.
... sobriety and
self-discipline had qualified him to ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
24.
... sobriety begins
to be taken as a ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
As
soon as his
sobriety begins to be
taken as a
matter of
course, the
family may
look at their
strange new dad with
apprehension, then
with
irritation.
25.
... sobriety brought
about by the admission of ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
26.
Sobriety can't
be kept unless it is ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Five), p.11
Sobriety can't be
kept unless it is
given away.
27.
... sobriety --
first, last, and all the time ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
This
being so, we
think it
logically follows that
sobriety --
first,
last, and all the
time -- is the
only
thing we
need to
work for.
28.
... sobriety for
problem drinkers.
12&12
Foreword, p.16
They
think that the
Twelve Steps can
mean more than
sobriety for
problem drinkers.
29.
Sobriety had
to be its sole objective.
12&12
Tradition Four, p.147
Sobriety had to be
its sole objective.
30.
... sobriety --
if any -- will be precarious.
12&12
Step One, p.21
Until he so
humbles himself, his
sobriety -- if
any --
will be
precarious.
31.
... sobriety is
enough.
BB
Into Action, p.82
We
feel a
man is
unthinking when he
says that
sobriety is
enough.
32.
... sobriety, June
10, 1935.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
33.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group, ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
34.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group ...
12&12
Tradition Four, pp.146-147
35.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group, ...
12&12
Tradition Three (Long), p.189
36.
... sobriety no
matter how isolated you are.
BB
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A., p.573
If there is
none nearby, you
will be
invited to
carry on a
correspondence which
will
do
much to
insure your
sobriety no matter how
isolated you are.
37.
... sobriety or
contentment for us.
12&12
Step Four, p.43
Without a
willing and
persistent effort to do
this, there can be
little sobriety or
contentment for us.
38.
... sobriety, progress,
and any real ability to ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
But all who are in the
least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is
plenty wrong with us
alcoholics about which
plenty will have to be
done if we are to
expect sobriety,
progress, and
any real ability to
cope with
life.
39.
... sobriety than
anything else.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
40.
... sobriety that
we've had.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.139
We
just want to be
sure that you
get the
same great chance for
sobriety that we've
had.
41.
... sobriety, the
aim of our services is ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.175
Just as the
aim of
each A.A. member is
personal sobriety, the
aim of our
services is to
bring sobriety within reach of all who
want it.
42.
... sobriety, they
still haven't much chance of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
43.
... sobriety time
behind them was sufficient to ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
44.
... sobriety unless
we give it away.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.151
It is the
great paradox of
A.A. that we
know we can
seldom keep the
precious gift of
sobriety unless we
give it
away.
45.
... sobriety, we
are in a short time ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
Commencing to
drink after a
period of
sobriety, we are in a
short time as
bad as
ever.
46.
... sobriety which
renewed my wife's hope.
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
Nevertheless, I
still
thought I could
control
the
situation, and there were
periods of
sobriety which
renewed my
wife's
hope.
47.
... sobriety within
reach of all who want ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Nine), p.12
Aim of our
services is to
bring sobriety within reach of all who
want it.
48.
... sobriety within
reach of all who want ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.175
Just as the
aim of
each A.A. member is
personal sobriety, the
aim of our
services is to
bring sobriety within reach of all who
want it.
49.
... sobriety would
be some place like the ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
His only
chance for
sobriety
would be some
place like the
Greenland Ice Cap, and
even there an
Eskimo might
turn up with a
bottle of
scotch and
ruin everything!
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