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... surely brings
a full return, the certainty ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
2.
... surely come
from medical men who have ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
Convincing testimony
must surely come from medical men who have had experience
with the sufferings of our members and have witnessed
our return to health.
3.
... surely convinced
that the group cannot get ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.135
The bleeding deacon is one who is just as surely convinced that the group cannot get along without him, who constantly connives for
reelection to office,
and who continues to be consumed with self-pity.
4.
... surely destroy
our spiritual heritage as futile ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.564
Experience has often warned us that nothing can so
surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
5.
... surely destroy
our spiritual heritage as futile ...
12&12
Tradition Seven (Long), p.191
Experience has often warned us that nothing can so
surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
6.
... surely destroy
us.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.140
7.
... surely die.
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
8.
... surely die.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
9.
... surely die.
12&12
Tradition One (Long), p.189
10.
... surely drink
again, and if he drank, ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
11.
... surely, electricity,
that strange energy so few ...
12&12
Step Three, p.36
Silently and surely, electricity, that strange
energy so few people understand, meets our simplest daily needs, and our most desperate ones, too.
12.
... surely get
a warped yet definite satisfaction.
12&12
Step Six, p.67
13.
... surely get
tight, and my wife dared ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
We could not be invited out because I would surely get tight, and my wife dared not invite people in for the same reason.
14.
... surely God-given.
12&12
Step Four, p.42
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
15.
... surely have
a chance if we switch ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
Well, we surely have a chance if we switch from "two-stepping" to "twelve-stepping," if we are
willing to receive that grace of God which can sustain and strengthen us
in any catastrophe.
16.
... surely have
no monopoly.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xxi
17.
Surely he
must now depend upon Somebody ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
18.
... surely keep
our balance, provided we remember, ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
If at these points our emotional disturbance
happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance, provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular
prayer or phrase that has appealed to us in our reading or meditation.
19.
... surely meet
some of us as you ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.164
We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit,
and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the
Road of Happy Destiny.
20.
... surely must
try with a will, or ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.73
But again we are driven on by
the inescapable conclusion which we draw from
A.A. experience, that we
surely must try with a will, or else fall by the wayside.
21.
... surely no
member of A.A., wants to ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
22.
... surely not
be called a professional A.A.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.168
Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary
answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about
the job she was doing and how
she was overpaid, then such
a person could surely not be
called a professional
A.A.
23.
... surely tempt
the board to invent all ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.164
The pressure of that fat treasury would surely tempt the board to invent all kinds of schemes to do good with such funds, and so divert A.A. from its primary purpose.
24.
... surely, than
we could easily mend with ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
25.
Surely, the
people there would have to ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
26.
Surely, then,
a novice ought not lay ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this fashion.
27.
Surely there
could be no justice in ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.97
28.
... surely there
is none which more jealously ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.129
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.
29.
Surely this
was the answer -- self-knowledge.
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
30.
... surely to
know and admit the truth ...
12&12
Step Five, p.59
We'd have to have outside help if we were surely to know and admit the truth about ourselves -- the
help of God and another human being.
31.
... surely true
the many articles of faith ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
32.
... surely trust.
12&12
Step Three, p.37
33.
... surely won't
take orders.
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
This doesn't mean an A.A. won't take advice or suggestions from more experienced members, but
he surely won't take orders.
34.
Surely you
can have faith in them.
12&12
Step Two, p.27
Surely you can have faith in
them.
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