From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... tolerance?
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Could we then foresee that troublesome people were
to become our principal
teachers of patience
and tolerance?
2.
... tolerance.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
We do talk about each other a great deal, but we almost invariably temper such talk by a spirit of love and tolerance.
3.
... tolerance.
BB p.138,
To Employers
4.
... tolerance and
see what real love for ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves,
are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach
true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means.
5.
... tolerance, and
true love of man and ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.
6.
... tolerance into
our sometimes deranged family lives ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we bring the same spirit of love and tolerance into our sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group?
7.
... tolerance, kindliness
and love.
BB p.83,
Into Action
So we clean house with the
family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.
8.
... tolerance, love,
and spiritual understanding.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
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.
9.
... tolerance of
other people's shortcomings and viewpoints ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Most of us sense that real
tolerance of other people's shortcomings
and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions
are attitudes which make
us more useful to others.
10.
... tolerance of
others is our code.
BB p.84,
Into Action
11.
... tolerance, patience
and good will toward all ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.
12.
... tolerance, pity,
and patience that we would ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we
would cheerfully grant
a sick friend.
13.
... tolerance, that
we were beset at times ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
All of us saw, for example,
that we lacked honesty
and tolerance, that we were beset at times by attacks of self-pity or delusions of personal grandeur.
14.
... tolerance, understanding
and love.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
15.
... tolerance, understanding
and love are the watchwords.
BB p.118,
To Wives
16.
... tolerance, unselfishness,
peace of mind, and love ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He finds himself in possession of a degree of
honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of
mind, and love of which he had
thought himself quite incapable.
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