From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... turn again
to the deposed founder and ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
2.
... turn and
walk back to the fraternity ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Many mornings I have gone to classes, and even though fully prepared, would turn and walk back to the fraternity house because of my jitters, not daring to enter the classroom for fear of making a scene should I be called on
for recitation.
3.
... turn away
from meditation and prayer, we ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we
likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our
intuitions of vitally
needed support.
4.
... turn comes
to speak at a meeting, ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
5.
... turn everybody
-- friends, wives, husbands, even the ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had failed to see that though adult in years we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody -- friends, wives, husbands, even the world itself -- into protective
parents.
6.
... turn for
the better.
BB p.147,
To Employers
So, for one reason or another, they cover these men, hoping matters will take a turn for the better.
7.
... turn, generates
more character defects.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
8.
... turn happy
and be free to concentrate ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
9.
... turn his
or her life over to ...
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?
10.
... turn his
own will and his own ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
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.
... turn his
will and his life over ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
So how, exactly, can the willing person continue to turn his will and his life over to the Higher Power?
12.
... turn in
all things to the Father ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
13.
... turn in
its flight like a boomerang ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
Out of this alloy of drink and speculation, I
commenced to forge the
weapon that one day would turn in its flight like a boomerang and all but
cut me to ribbons.
14.
... turn into
the real thing and are ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in a few years.
15.
... turn may
be footsore and may straggle.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
16.
... turn me
into a nonentity.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
17.
... turn might
work with others.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
18.
... turn more
and more to the entire ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
But in the longer run we clearly realize that these
are only the pains of growing up, and nothing but good can come from them if we turn more and more to the entire Twelve Steps for the answers.
19.
... turn our
thoughts to someone we can ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
20.
... turn our
will and our life over ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
Being convinced, we were
at Step Three, which is that
we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him.
21.
... turn our
will and our lives over ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
22.
... turn our
will and our lives over ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have
tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
23.
... turn our
will and our lives over ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
So it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments
of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power.
24.
... turn our
will and our lives over ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
25.
... turn out,
however, that you'll choose someone ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
It may turn out, however, that
you'll choose someone else for the more difficult and deeper revelations.
26.
... turn out
to be bogeymen, nothing else.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
But the testimony of A.A.'s
who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.
27.
... turn out
to be firm bedrock upon ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally
turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.
28.
... turn out
to be one's sponsor, but ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
29.
... turn outward
toward our fellow alcoholics who ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
30.
... turn, sought
the same escape with all ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
31.
... turn the
past to good account.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
32.
... turn the
talk to some phase of ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
33.
... turn the
trick.
BB p.144,
To Employers
You are betting, of course, that your changed attitude plus the contents of this book will turn the trick.
34.
... turn them
into demonstrations of faith.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our basic troubles are
the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by
God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.
35.
... turn this
man away, he'll soon die.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
36.
... turn to
Him, all will be well ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
37.
... turn to
the page which contains the ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
38.
... turn up
the root causes.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes.
39.
... turn up
with a bottle of scotch ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
His only chance for sobriety would be some place
like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might
turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!
40.
... turn would
mean a night of futile ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This would lessen my chances of smuggling some
home that evening, which in
turn would mean a night of futile tossing around in bed followed by a morning of unbearable jitters.
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