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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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WORTH   occurs   14 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... worth a bad case of jitters if ...   BB p.32, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 32 in the Big Book
It may be worth a bad case of jitters if you get a full knowledge of your condition.

2.
... worth and durability?   12&12 p.120, Step Twelve
If they cannot have this kind of happiness, can A.A. offer them satisfactions of similar worth and durability?


3.
... worth any amount of criticism.   BB p.100, Working With Others   Go to page 100 in the Big Book
The story of how you and your wife settled your difficulties is worth any amount of criticism.


4.
... worth it.   BB p.112, To Wives   Go to page 112 in the Big Book
This may take patient waiting, but it will be worth it.

5.
... worth knowing better, by as direct contact ...   12&12 p.108, Step Twelve
In Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to live with some peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible.

6.
... worth noting that people of very high ...   12&12 p.60, Step Five
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have received from God.

7.
... worth of needed postage stamps.   12&12 p.177, Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.


8.
... worth retaining?   BB p.140, To Employers   Go to page 140 in the Big Book
If he had these qualities and did not drink would he be worth retaining?


9.
... worth salvaging?   BB p.140, To Employers   Go to page 140 in the Big Book
Is he worth salvaging?


10.
... worth while.   BB p.66, How It Works   Go to page 66 in the Big Book
To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while.


11.
... worth while.   BB p.140, To Employers   Go to page 140 in the Big Book
If this presents difficulty, re-reading chapters two and three, where the alcoholic sickness is discussed at length might be worth while.


12.
... worth while can be accomplished until we ...   BB p.77, Into Action   Go to page 77 in the Big Book
We are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do so, never trying to tell him what he should do.


13.
... worth while in life.   BB p.18, There Is A Solution   Go to page 18 in the Big Book
But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life.


14.
... worth while to us now.   BB p.124, The Family Afterward   Go to page 124 in the Big Book
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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