From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... true.
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
2.
... true?
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... true.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
4.
... true.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
5.
... true alcoholic,
as our behavior patterns vary.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
6.
... true alcoholics.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
7.
... true alcoholics
after a while.
BB p.109,
To Wives
8.
True ambition
is not what we thought ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
9.
True ambition
is the deep desire to ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
10.
... true and
important for the A.A.'s who ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
11.
... true, apparently,
ever since man had first ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
12.
... true basis
of intolerance?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
13.
... true brotherhood
we had small comprehension.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
14.
... true, but
is positive that he will ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
15.
... true, but
it doesn't fully apply.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
16.
... true catalog
of our defects and had ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
How could we be certain that we had made a true catalog of our defects and
had really admitted
them, even to ourselves?
17.
True, each
physician in such a group ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
18.
... true even
when we believed that God ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
19.
... true fellowship.
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
Though Tradition Nine at first sight seems to deal with a purely practical matter, in its actual operation it discloses
a society without organization, animated only by the spirit
of service -- a true fellowship.
20.
... true for
the alcoholic!
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
21.
True, founders
and their friends are sometimes ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
22.
... true freedom
of the human spirit, to ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get completely away from our aversion to the
idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the
avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired
for itself, takes most of
us a long, long time.
23.
... true from
the false.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they
cannot after a time differentiate the true
from the false.
24.
True humility
and an open mind can ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance
that God will restore us to sanity if we
rightly relate ourselves to Him.
25.
... true if
he has, in fact, behaved ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
26.
... true independence
of the spirit.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Therefore dependence, as A.A. practices it, is really a
means of gaining true independence of the spirit.
27.
... true, it
would follow that life originated ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
Were our contentions true, it would follow that life originated out of nothing, means nothing, and proceeds nowhere.
28.
... true kinship
with man and God.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
29.
... true leaders
in A.A. are but trusted ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
All such representatives are to be guided in the spirit of service, for true leaders in A.A. are but trusted and experienced
servants of the whole.
30.
... true leaders
in A.A. are but trusted ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
All such representatives are to be guided in the spirit of service, for true leaders in A.A. are but trusted and experienced
servants of the whole.
31.
True leadership,
we find, depends upon able ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
32.
... true love
of man and God the ...
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.
33.
True, most
of us thought good character ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously good character was something
one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.
34.
... true motive
was to feel superior by ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Or, the person concerned not being present, we thought we were
helping others to understand him, when in actuality our true motive was to feel superior by pulling him down.
35.
... true motives
were.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
36.
... true nature
of his malady, that person ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again.
37.
... true of
certain nonalcoholic people who, though ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
That may be true of certain
nonalcoholic people
who, though drinking foolishly and heavily at
the present time, are able to stop or moderate, because their brains and bodies have not
been damaged as ours were.
38.
... true of
women.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
39.
... true only
if one is willing to ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
40.
... true partnership
with another human being.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.
41.
... true progress.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
For pride, leading to self-justification, and
always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the
basic breeder of most human difficulties, the
chief block to true progress.
42.
... true purpose
and direction.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
But today, in well-matured A.A.'s, these distorted drives have been
restored to something
like their true purpose and direction.
43.
... true purpose
of our lives, produced another ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
This lack of anchorage to
any permanent values, this blindness to
the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result.
44.
... true religious
feeling.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
Or, going to the other extreme, we had wallowed
in emotionalism and had mistaken it for true religious feeling.
45.
True, some
of the projects to which ...
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
True, some of the projects
to which A.A.'s have attached themselves
have been ill-conceived,
but that makes not the slightest difference
with the principle involved.
46.
... true that
few subjects have been the ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Despite this certainty, it is nevertheless true that few subjects have been the cause of more contention within our Fellowship than professionalism.
47.
... true that
in all matters touching upon ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance of Alcoholics
Anonymous?
48.
... true that
our first printing gave many ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in
the nature of sudden and
spectacular upheavals.
49.
... true that
the best mathematical minds had ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
50.
... true that
we like to let greed ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
51.
... true that
you and your husband have ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
It is probably true that
you and your husband have been living too much alone, for drinking many times isolates the wife of an alcoholic.
52.
... true the
many articles of faith which ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
53.
... true this
is, few realize.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
54.
... true throughout
the material world.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
These tiny bodies are governed by precise laws, and these laws hold true throughout the material
world.
55.
... true to
some extent, in fact, to ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
56.
... true tolerance
and see what real love ...
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.
57.
... true voice
of Alcoholics Anonymous.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
They become the voice of
the group conscience;
in fact, these are the true voice of Alcoholics Anonymous.
58.
... true voice,
welling up out of my ...
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
59.
... True when
this book was first published.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism (Note)
60.
... true whether
we had been believers or ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
61.
... true with
many of our men, it ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Though it is infinitely better that he
have no relapse at all, as
has been true with many of our
men, it is by no means a bad thing in some cases.
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