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... things.
BB
Bill's Story, p.10
2.
... things.
BB
Working With Others, pp.90-91
3.
... things.
BB
To Wives, p.108
Of course, there is such a thing as incompatibility, but in nearly every instance the alcoholic
only seems to be unloving
and inconsiderate; it is usually because he is warped and sickened that he
says and does these appalling things.
4.
... things.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
5.
... things.
BB
To Employers, pp.140-141
When drinking, or getting
over a bout, an alcoholic, sometimes the
model of honesty when normal, will do incredible things.
6.
... things?
BB
To Employers, p.145
7.
... things.
BB
To Employers, p.148
8.
... things.
12&12
Step Six, p.64
9.
... things.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.104
We say to ourselves, "This
one ought to be cured of his fatal malady," or "That one ought to be relieved of his emotional pain," and we pray for these specific things.
10.
... things.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
These will appear as big setbacks at the time, but will be seen later as stepping-stones to better things.
11.
... things?
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
12.
... things.
12&12
Tradition Four, p.149
13.
... things.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.155
The moment we saw that we had
an answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or so it seemed
at the time) for us to feel that
we might have the answer to a lot of other things.
14.
... things, a
feeling of jealousy may arise.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.131
15.
... things A.A.
would be able to do ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
16.
... things alcoholics
are not supposed to do.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
17.
... things and
gain interest in our fellows.
BB
Into Action, p.84
18.
... things, and
sometimes this results in rebuffs ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
Here again we are presented with the temptation to overmanage things, and sometimes this results in
rebuffs and other consequences which are hard
to take.
19.
... things, and
therefore no God at all.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.97
20.
... things are
going beautifully he dismays you ...
BB
To Wives, p.120
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
21.
... things are
now ruined or damaged.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
But the head of the house has
spent years in pulling down the structures of business,
romance, friendship, health -- these things are now ruined or damaged.
22.
... things are
poison.
BB
How It Works, p.66
23.
... things are
possible."
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
24.
... things are
the substance of what we ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.110
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to
see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of what
we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
25.
... things at
all.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
26.
... things began
to hum.
12&12
Tradition Four, p.148
27.
... things, but
frankly said that he was ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.135
28.
... things, but
in some form or other ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there.
29.
... things cannot
happen again.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.38
We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone
to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves so
well after what you have told us that such things cannot happen again.
30.
... things done?
BB
To Employers, pp.139-140
31.
... things down
good, were about to apply ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.148
They understood that the elders, just to nail things down good, were about to apply to the Foundation for
a charter.
32.
... Things First
BB
The Family Afterward, p.135
33.
... things followed.
BB
How It Works, p.63
34.
... things for
us which we could never ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.25
35.
... things for
which we cannot otherwise account.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
36.
... things go
disappointingly dull.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
37.
Things go
well at home and office.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
38.
... things got
worse.
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
39.
... things happen
we should not think too ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.105
40.
... things have
happened among us, they can ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.153
41.
... things he
does on his sprees.
BB
Into Action, p.73
42.
... things he
wants?
BB
How It Works, p.61
43.
... things human,
their problems pile up on ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
44.
... things I
can, and wisdom to know ...
12&12
Step Three, pp.40-41
In all times of emotional
disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."
45.
... things I
cannot change, courage to change ...
12&12
Step Three, pp.40-41
In all times of emotional
disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."
46.
... things in
life, we are no longer ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.105
The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the
seeming evidence to the
contrary that surrounds
us in purely human affairs.
47.
... things in
order to stay alive himself.
12&12
Step One, p.24
No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme,
doesn't care for this prospect -- unless he has to
do these things in order to stay alive himself.
48.
... things in
ourselves which had been blocking ...
BB
How It Works, p.64
Though our decision was a
vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.
49.
... things in
ourselves which had brought us ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy.
50.
... things in
yourself and they will be ...
BB
To Wives, p.118
51.
... things just
before he died; these recollections ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.10
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness
as he spoke of these things just before he died; these recollections
welled up from the past.
52.
... things made
us bristle with antagonism.
BB
We Agnostics, p.48
Many of us have been so touchy
that even casual reference to spiritual
things made us bristle with antagonism.
53.
... things, money,
and ourselves?
BB
We Agnostics, p.54
54.
... things of
life which we specified, as ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
Sometimes it's because
God has not delivered us the
good things of life which we specified, as a
greedy child makes an impossible list for Santa Claus.
55.
... things of
which we and others are ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
Having opened our channel
as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need.
56.
... things, often
enhance such unions.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
Their common suffering as
drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.
57.
... things on
faith which seemed difficult to ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
That was great news to us, for
we had assumed we could not make use of spiritual principles unless we accepted many things on faith which seemed difficult to believe.
58.
... things possible,
and we only smiled.
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
59.
... things right.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
We had to begin to make our peace, and so we listed the people we had harmed and became willing to set things right.
60.
... things safer,
the promoter organized three corporations ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.148
61.
... things terrified
and distracted us.
BB
To Wives, pp.106-107
The alarming physical
and mental symptoms, the
deepening pall of remorse, depression and inferiority that settled
down on our loved ones -- these things terrified and distracted
us.
62.
... things that
are constructive.
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
63.
... things the
hard way.
BB
To Wives, p.121
64.
... things the
tissue out of which our ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.54
65.
... things, there
has been a revolutionary change ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
They flatly declare that
since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves,
to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a
revolutionary change
in their way of living and thinking.
66.
... things --
these are the permanent and legitimate ...
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.
67.
... things, they
will not take so seriously ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
If they sense these things,
they will not take so seriously his periods of crankiness, depression,
or apathy, which will disappear when there is tolerance, love, and spiritual understanding.
68.
... things to
all men.
12&12
Contents (Tradition Six), p.11
We could not be all things to all men.
69.
... things to
all men, nor should we ...
12&12
Tradition Six, p.157
70.
... things to
God, to ourselves, and to ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.78
It had been embarrassing enough when in confidence
we had admitted these things
to God, to ourselves, and to
another human being.
71.
... things to
ourselves.
BB
Into Action, p.72
72.
... things to
regain self-control.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
73.
... things to
the Father of Light who ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.14
74.
... things tomorrow
will be the permanent assets ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.95
An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a
willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.
75.
... things was
concerned, our outlook underwent the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
Where the possession of money and material things was concerned, our outlook underwent the same revolutionary change.
76.
... things, we
began to be possessed of ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of a
Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of
the Universe underlying the totality
of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps.
77.
... things, we
believe we will be forgiven ...
BB
How It Works, p.70
If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and will have learned our lesson.
78.
... things we
can, And wisdom to know ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.125
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, Courage to change the things we can, And wisdom to know the difference.
79.
... things we
cannot change, Courage to change ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.125
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, Courage to change the things we can, And wisdom to know the difference.
80.
... things we
dreamed.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.155
81.
... things we
have done, meanwhile forgiving the ...
12&12
Step Eight, pp.81-82
We shall want to hold ourselves to the course of admitting the
things we have done, meanwhile forgiving the
wrongs done us, real or fancied.
82.
... things well
done, and chalking up debits ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
Here we cast up a balance sheet, crediting ourselves with things well done, and chalking up debits where due.
83.
... things well
done, and having searched our ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.95
Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note
of things well done, and having searched our
hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received
and sleep in good conscience.
84.
... things were
accomplished.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
85.
... things were
done I would enter upon ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
My friend promised when
these things were done I would
enter upon a new relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my
problems.
86.
... things, were
the essential requirements.
BB
Bill's Story, pp.13-14
Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the
new order of things, were the essential requirements.
87.
... things were
true to some extent, in ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
88.
... things, when
such action is warranted.
BB
Working With Others, p.98
Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.
89.
... things which
came to us when we ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned.
90.
... things which
go to make up the ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with
pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above selfishness or dishonesty.
91.
... things which
matter so much to some ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.161
Being wrecked in the same vessel, being restored and united under one God, with hearts and minds attuned to the welfare of others, the things which matter so much to some people no longer signify much to them.
92.
... things which
only the individual can do.
12&12
Step Three, p.40
93.
... things which
really bother and burn us, ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
94.
... things which,
so far as the alcoholic ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
Drinking occasionally, and understanding your own reactions, it is possible
for you to become quite sure of many things which, so far as the alcoholic is concerned,
are not always so.
95.
... things which
then seemed entirely out of ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
96.
... things which
they have in common are ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
97.
... things which
we have admitted are objectionable?
BB
Into Action, p.76
98.
... things which
were superficially wrong with us, ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.80
We can go far beyond those things which were superficially wrong with
us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which sometimes were responsible for the whole
pattern of our lives.
99.
... things while
drinking.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
100.
... things will
come to pass naturally and ...
BB
Working With Others, p.99
These things will come to pass naturally and in good time provided, however, the alcoholic continues to demonstrate that he can be sober, considerate, and helpful, regardless of
what anyone says or does.
101.
... things will
happen.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
102.
... things with
all our might, but the ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
We could wish to be moral, we
could wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact, we could
will these things with all our
might, but the needed power
wasn't there.
103.
... things without
reference to the wishes of ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.164
Whoever pays the piper is apt to call the tune, and if the A.A. Foundation obtained money from outside sources, its trustees might be tempted to run things without reference to the wishes of
A.A. as a whole.
104.
... things worth
while in life.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes
annihilation of all the things worth while in life.
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