From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... stand?
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
2.
... stand a
better chance of getting what ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
With a proper display of
honesty and morality,
we'd stand a better chance of getting what we really wanted.
3.
... stand almost
any amount of battering.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
When A.A.'s Traditions
were first published, in
1946, we had become sure that an A.A. group could stand almost any amount of battering.
4.
... stand before
his Creator guilty of such ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
After consulting with
his wife and partner he came to the conclusion that
it was better to take those risks than to stand before his Creator guilty of such ruinous slander.
5.
... stand convicted
of emotional sterility and of ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
If we do not do so, we shall stand convicted of emotional sterility and
of having lost the faith that
moves mountains, without which medicine can
do little.
6.
... stand firm
in the face of difficult ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
And they have increasingly found a peace of mind which can stand firm in the face of difficult circumstances.
7.
... stand for
it.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
8.
... stand it
if we hate deeply.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
9.
... stand now,
and a further look at ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
It ought to be followed
by a good look at where we
stand now, and a further look at what might happen in our lives were we able to move closer to the ideal we have
been trying to glimpse.
10.
... stand on
our feet; we don't crawl ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
11.
... stand ready
to do anything which will ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
12.
... stand this
God stuff!
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
13.
... stand today.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
These very deviations created a vast process of trial and error which, under the grace of God, has brought us to where we stand
today.
14.
... stand together
on this Step.
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
15.
... stand up
under fire, and endure the ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Would they be able to take discipline, stand up under fire, and endure the monotony and misery of war?
16.
... stand with
us a while on the ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear
somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
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