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... try.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever
our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we
may form a relationship
upon simple and understandable terms as
soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.
2.
... try.
BB
To Wives, p.111
3.
... try.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
4.
... try.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.157
5.
... try again.
BB
Working With Others, p.96
6.
... try and
get them to see it!(*)
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
7.
... try and
help me and to help ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.152
"Still dubious, he demanded, 'Do you really mean the only reason you are here is to try and help me and to help yourself?'
8.
... try as
best we know how to ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
9.
... try beer
and wine?"
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
10.
... try, exactly
how can he turn his ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can he turn his own will and his own life over
to the care of whatever God he thinks there is?
11.
... try for
better things tomorrow will be ...
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.
12.
... try hard
to seek them out.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
13.
... try, however
falteringly, to find and do ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.98
And we will be comforted
and assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try, however falteringly, to find and do
the will of our own Creator.
14.
... try humility
in seeking the removal of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we did
when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
15.
... try it
by himself for once; maybe ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.144
16.
Try it
more than once.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
17.
... try leaving
liquor alone for one year.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
If anyone questions whether he has entered this
dangerous area, let him try leaving liquor alone for one year.
18.
Try not
to condemn your alcoholic husband ...
BB
To Wives, p.108
19.
... try not
to indulge in cynicism over ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
We try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry the world's troubles on our shoulders.
20.
... try our
method, unless the doctor thinks ...
BB
To Wives, p.114
If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor
that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or
dangerous.
21.
... try our
program, for nothing will be ...
BB
To Wives, p.117
We urge you to try our program, for nothing will be so helpful to your husband as the radically changed attitude toward him which God will show you how to have.
22.
... try our
suggestions.
BB
To Wives, p.104
There is every evidence
that women regain their health as readily as men if they try our suggestions.
23.
... try repeatedly
Step Six on all his ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
He goes on to explain that any person capable of enough willingness and honesty
to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults -- without any reservations whatever -- has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be
called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and likeness of his own Creator.
24.
... try some
controlled drinking.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
25.
... try some
more controlled drinking, bearing in ...
12&12
Step One, p.23
Why don't you try some more controlled drinking, bearing in mind meanwhile what we have told you about alcoholism?"
26.
... try the
old game again, for he ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
27.
... try the
program, the process has begun.
12&12
Step Nine, p.83
28.
... try this.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are willing to try this.
29.
... try this.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.134
30.
... try to
answer for you.
BB
To Wives, p.110
31.
... try to
arrange a man's life so ...
BB
To Wives, p.120
32.
... try to
ask for those right things ...
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.
33.
... try to
avoid harming third parties, whoever ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.86
And even in those cases where such a matter must be discussed, let's try to avoid harming third parties, whoever they may be.
34.
... try to
be absolutely sure that we ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.87
35.
... try to
be humbly grateful and exert ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
When by devoted service to
family, friends, business, or community we
attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility
and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.
36.
... try to
build.
12&12
Step Four, p.49
These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever
sort of life we try to build.
37.
... try to
bypass Step Five.
12&12
Step Five, p.55
So intense, though, is our
fear and reluctance to do
this, that many A.A.'s at first try to bypass Step Five.
38.
... try to
carry A.A.'s message.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.110
39.
... try to
change our plan.
BB
Into Action, pp.74-75
It is important that he be able to keep a confidence; that he fully understand and approve
what we are driving at; that he will not try to change our plan.
40.
... try to
cover up those feelings of ...
12&12
Step Four, p.51
Did I try to cover up those feelings of inadequacy by
bluffing, cheating, lying, or evading responsibility?
41.
... try to
discover where we have been ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.77
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been
at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
42.
... try to
do by what he called ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
43.
... try to
do in the future.
BB
Into Action, p.79
44.
... try to
do much the same thing?
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
45.
... try to
dominate the whole family, either ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.81
What happens when we try to
dominate the whole family, either by a rule of iron or by a constant outpouring of minute directions for just how their lives should be lived from hour to hour?
46.
Try to
drink and stop abruptly.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
47.
... try to
forget.
BB
To Wives, p.106
48.
... try to
give them advice about their ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all.
49.
... try to
give up our natural desires ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.187
Moved by the spirit of anonymity, we try to give up our natural desires for personal distinction as
A.A. members both among fellow alcoholics and before the general public.
50.
Try to
have him bring up the ...
BB
To Wives, p.111
51.
... try to
have it.
12&12
Step Six, pp.65-66
52.
... try to
have your husband read this ...
BB
To Wives, p.114
53.
... try to
help him about getting a ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
54.
... try to
help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
Can we love the whole pattern of living as eagerly as we do the small segment of it we discover
when we try to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
55.
... try to
help other alcoholics when he ...
BB
Working With Others, p.94
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he escapes his own difficulties.
56.
... try to
help others and who will ...
BB
Working With Others, p.90
You should be described to him as one of a fellowship who, as part of their own recovery, try to help others and who will be glad to talk to him if he cares to see you.
57.
... try to
help the wife of another ...
BB
To Wives, p.112
58.
... try to
hug the new treasure to ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
59.
... try to
increase the pleasure of those ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
If it is a happy occasion,
try to increase the pleasure of those there; if a
business occasion, go and attend to your business enthusiastically.
60.
... try to
live by self-propulsion.
BB
How It Works, p.60
61.
... try to
make our will conform with ...
12&12
Step Three, p.40
62.
... try to
manipulate others to our own ...
12&12
Step Four, p.53
When we habitually try to
manipulate others to our
own willful desires, they revolt, and resist us heavily.
63.
... try to
move toward it.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
Well, meditation is like that, too; it helps to envision our spiritual objective before we try to move toward it.
64.
... try to
pause and count your blessings.
BB
To Wives, p.119
65.
... try to
practice the A.A. program unless ...
12&12
Step One, p.24
The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom.
66.
... try to
prove themselves exceptions to the ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.
67.
... try to
put spiritual principles to work ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
68.
Try to
remember that though God has ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist.
69.
... try to
repair the damage immediately lest ...
BB
Working With Others, p.99
70.
... try to
see what its inner essence ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
71.
... try to
stop making unreasonable demands upon ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
72.
... try to
take advantage of your kindness.
BB
To Employers, p.141
73.
... try to
tell your story.
BB
Working With Others, p.91
74.
... try to
think it through a little ...
12&12
Step Six, p.66
Some who feel they have done well may dispute this, so let's try to think it through a little further.
75.
... try to
visualize how we might have ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
Here we need only recognize that we did act or think badly, try to visualize how we might
have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
76.
... try with
a will, or else fall ...
12&12
Step Seven, pp.73-74
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.
77.
... try, with
or without your cooperation, various ...
BB
To Wives, p.109
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