From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... strength.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength.
2.
... strength.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
3.
... strength.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
Each needed to consider the others, and in
abiding faith they knew they must find their real strength.
4.
... strength.
BB p.68,
How It Works
5.
... strength and
direction, I became irritated and ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
When they talked of a God personal to me, who was love,
superhuman strength and
direction, I became irritated and my mind snapped shut against such a theory.
6.
... strength and
direction to do the right ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
Reminding ourselves
that we have decided to go to
any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we
be given strength and direction to do the right
thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.
7.
... strength, and
hope.
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and
hope.
8.
... strength, and
hope with each other, in ...
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
9.
... strength and
hope with each other that ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their
common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
10.
... strength and
intelligence, for just that long ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own
individual strength and
intelligence, for just
that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
11.
... strength and
peace that could not be ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be deeply
shaken by the shortcomings of others
or by any calamity not of
our own making.
12.
... strength and
resources alone.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening,
the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.
13.
... strength, and
the atmosphere of His grace.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
We all need the light of God's reality, the nourishment of His strength, and the atmosphere
of His grace.
14.
... strength, as
I go out from here, ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
15.
... strength, inspiration,
and direction from Him who ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
Much has already been said about receiving strength, inspiration, and direction from Him who has all knowledge and power.
16.
... strength not
ordinarily their own.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
17.
... strength of
purpose and action.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
They see liberty verging on license, yet they recognize at once that A.A. has an irresistible strength of
purpose and action.
18.
... strength our
means of survival.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival.
19.
... strength out
of weakness.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
20.
... strength to
do the right thing.
BB p.70,
How It Works
To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and
for the strength to do the right thing.
21.
... strength to
meet my problems as He ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I was to sit quietly when in
doubt, asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would
have me.
22.
... strength until
we first admit complete defeat ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered.
23.
... strength which,
in one way or another, ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
In a very real sense he has been transformed, because he
has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto
denied himself.
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