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... understood.
BB
To Employers, p.137
2.
... understood as
it is now.
BB
A Vision For You, pp.156-157
3.
... understood; better
to forgive than to be ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
He thought it better to give comfort than to receive it; better to understand than to be understood; better to forgive than to be forgiven.
4.
... understood by
his friends, and about whom ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
There is the manic-depressive type, who is, perhaps, the least understood by his friends, and
about whom a whole chapter
could be written.
5.
... understood each
other.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.152
6.
... understood fact
that in God's sight all ...
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.
7.
... understood Him.
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him.
8.
... understood Him.
BB
How It Works, p.59
9.
... understood Him.
BB
How It Works, p.60
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.
10.
... understood Him."
12&12
Contents (Step Three), p.5
Step Three -- "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him."
11.
... understood Him."
12&12
Step Three, p.34
12.
... understood Him."
12&12
Step Three, pp.34-35
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."
13.
... understood Him.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
Consequently, in Step Three we turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
14.
... understood Him:
"God, I offer myself to ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
Many of us said to our Maker, as we understood Him: "God, I offer myself to Thee -- to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt.
15.
... understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of ...
BB
How It Works, p.59
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our
conscious contact with
God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge
of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
16.
... understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of ...
12&12
Contents (Step Eleven), p.8
Step Eleven -- "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us
and the power to carry that out."
17.
... understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
"Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us
and the power to carry that out."
18.
... understood Him,
to do with me as ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
19.
... understood Him,
to give me release, my ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
But when I became willing
to clean house and then asked a Higher Power, God as I understood Him, to give me release, my obsession to drink vanished.
20.
... understood his.
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
21.
... understood, is
a petition to God.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
22.
... understood not
at all.
12&12
Step Two, p.32
23.
... understood our
men as we did not!
BB
To Wives, p.106
24.
... understood that
our alcoholic work is an ...
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
25.
... understood that
the elders, just to nail ...
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.
26.
... understood the
nature of the alcoholic illness, ...
BB
To Wives, p.107
27.
... understood, there
may be an emotional upset.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.134
28.
... understood --
to love, than to be loved.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted -- to understand, than to be understood -- to love, than to be loved.
29.
... understood, to
love than to be loved," ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
At these critical moments, if we remind ourselves that "it is better
to comfort than to be comforted, to understand
than to be understood, to love
than to be loved," we will be
following the intent of
Step Eleven.
30.
... understood what
alcohol could do to a ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.170
31.
... understood why
we thought we deserved a ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
When you add to this the habitual supposition
that people ought to give money to alcoholics trying to stay sober, it can be understood why we thought we deserved a pile of folding money.
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