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


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1.
  ... come.  BB A Vision For You, p.153
Should you wish them above all else, and be willing to make use of our experience, we are sure they will come.


2.
  ... come.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
Valiantly he tries to fight alcohol, imploring God's help, but the help doesn't come.


3.
  ... come.  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
When our inventory is carefully taken, and we have made peace with ourselves, the conviction follows that tomorrow's challenges can be met as they come.


4.
  ... come.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
In the morning we think of the hours to come.


5.
  ... come.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
Like most people, we have found that we can take our big lumps as they come.


6.
  ... come a long way spiritually, and is ...  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.


7.
  ... come about?" you ask. "Where am I ...  BB A Vision For You, p.152
"How is that to come about?" you ask. "Where am I to find these people?"


8.
  ... come after we have tried this for ...  BB Into Action, p.86
We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while.


9.
  ... come and go as he likes.  BB To Wives, p.120
Make him feel absolutely free to come and go as he likes.


10.
  ... come back for one reason or another.  BB Working With Others, p.99
In some cases the wife will never come back for one reason or another.


11.
  ... come back to sit in the meeting ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us; you can't keep us out."


12.
  ... come before personalities.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Twelve), p.13
Principles come before personalities.


13.
  ... come before personalities, without exception.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
Here, principles would have to come before personalities, without exception.


14.
  ... come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before ...  12&12 Step Ten, pp.93-94
How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him, for we know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.


15.
  ... come before the egg.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.97
Sure, we said to ourselves, the hen probably did come before the egg.


16.
  ... come close to a solution.  12&12 Step Two, p.27
In this respect they are certainly a power greater than you, who have not even come close to a solution.


17.
  ... come, depend squarely upon it.  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
Our lives, the lives of all to come, depend squarely upon it.


18.
  ... come first, and that material satisfactions were ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were not the purpose of living.


19.
  ... come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
One -- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.


20.
  ... come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition One), p.9
Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles. The group must survive or the individual will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.


21.
  ... come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
"Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity."


22.
  ... come from a Higher Power.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
His defense must come from a Higher Power.


23.
  ... come from God are not answers at ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.103
Quite often, however, the thoughts that seem to come from God are not answers at all.


24.
  ... come from medical men who have had ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
Convincing testimony must surely come from medical men who have had experience with the sufferings of our members and have witnessed our return to health.


25.
  ... come from them if we turn more ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
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.


26.
  ... come from within.  BB Working With Others, p.95
If he is to find God, the desire must come from within.


27.
  ... come from without.  12&12 Step Four, p.52
These stem from causes which sometimes seem to be within us, and at other times to come from without.


28.
  ... come home plastered, carrying a big potted ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
It was the day before Mother's Day and I had come home plastered, carrying a big potted plant which I set down on the table and forthwith went upstairs and passed out.


29.
  ... come -- I would drink again.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.41
I now remembered what my alcoholic friends had told me, how they prophesied that if I had an alcoholic mind, the time and place would come -- I would drink again.


30.
  ... come, if we want it.  BB How It Works, p.69
The right answer will come, if we want it.


31.
  ... come, if your own house is in ...  BB A Vision For You, p.164
The answers will come, if your own house is in order.


32.
  ... come in.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in.


33.
  ... come in here talking religion!'  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
You've got a nerve to come in here talking religion!'


34.
  ... come in the door shouting the good ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
We want to come in the door shouting the good news.


35.
  ... come into A.A., if we go on ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.


36.
  ... come into agreement with these ideas, it ...  12&12 Step Three, p.40
Once we have come into agreement with these ideas, it is really easy to begin the practice of Step Three.


37.
  ... come into harmony with practically anybody.  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
Courtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we may come into harmony with practically anybody.


38.
  ... come into your mind would be: "what ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
The question which might naturally come into your mind would be: "what did the man do or say that was different from what others had done or said?"


39.
  ... come, it will be apparent to both ...  BB Working With Others, p.99
When the time for living together has come, it will be apparent to both parties.


40.
  ... come oblivion and the awful awakening to ...  BB A Vision For You, p.151
Momentarily we did -- then would come oblivion and the awful awakening to face the hideous Four Horsemen -- Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair.


41.
  ... come off very well.  BB How It Works, p.61
The show doesn't come off very well.


42.
  ... come out?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
How do they come out?


43.
  ... come out of asylums and resume a ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities.


44.
  ... come over.  BB Bill's Story, pp.8-9
The cheery voice of an old school friend asked if he might come over.


45.
  ... come over that evening to meet a ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.


46.
  ... come quite as much from our voluntary ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering.


47.
  ... come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.


48.
  ... come strongly.  BB Into Action, p.75
The feeling that the drink problem has disappeared will often come strongly.


49.
  ... come through to the bottom, becoming club ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
Some would start at the top and come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized, then graduated to education on the third floor.


50.
  ... come to a close.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
These little studies of A.A.'s Twelve Steps now come to a close.


51.
  ... come to "a decision to turn our ...  12&12 Step Three, p.34
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."


52.
  ... come to agree with those doctors.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
In the years since, however, most of us have come to agree with those doctors.


53.
  ... come to all who have honestly sought ...  BB We Agnostics, p.57
But He has come to all who have honestly sought Him.


54.
  ... come to another kind of problem: the ...  12&12 Step Two, p.29
Now we come to another kind of problem: the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman.


55.
  ... come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. ...  12&12 Step One, p.21
We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating weakness and all its consequences.


56.
  ... come to appreciate your reasonableness and patience.  BB To Wives, p.111
Your husband may come to appreciate your reasonableness and patience.


57.
  ... come to believe He would like us ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
We have come to believe He would like us to keep our heads in the clouds with Him, but that our feet ought to be firmly planted on earth.


58.
  ... come to believe in a Power greater ...  BB We Agnostics, p.50
They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.


59.
  ... come to believe in the hopelessness and ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it.


60.
  ... come to believe it an illness -- involves ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
An illness of this sort -- and we have come to believe it an illness -- involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can.


61.
  ... come to believe that a man-made millennium ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
The immense resources now being harnessed promise such a quantity of material blessings that many have come to believe that a man-made millennium lies just ahead.


62.
  ... come to grips with some of our ...  12&12 Step Six, p.69
At the very least, we shall have to come to grips with some of our worst character defects and take action toward their removal as quickly as we can.


63.
  ... come to grips with those serious character ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
Still goaded by sheer necessity, we reluctantly come to grips with those serious character flaws that made problem drinkers of us in the first place, flaws which must be dealt with to prevent a retreat into alcoholism once again.


64.
  ... come to him.  BB To Employers, p.144
If the book is read the moment the patient is able, while acutely depressed, realization of his condition may come to him.


65.
  ... come to know how wrong thinking and ...  12&12 Step Five, p.55
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.


66.
  ... come to know them, the entire absence ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
The unselfishness of these men as we have come to know them, the entire absence of profit motive, and their community spirit, is indeed inspiring to one who has labored long and wearily in this alcoholic field.


67.
  ... come to make regular use of prayer ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.97
Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine.


68.
  ... come to mind.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
It hadn't even come to mind.


69.
  ... come to mind easily in each individual ...  12&12 Step Four, pp.52-53
Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes.


70.
  ... come to pass for you and countless ...  BB A Vision For You, p.164
See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others.


71.
  ... come to pass his experience along to ...  BB Bill's Story, p.9
He had come to pass his experience along to me -- if I cared to have it.


72.
  ... come to pass naturally and in good ...  BB Working With Others, p.99
These things will come to pass naturally and in good time provided, however, the alcoholic continues to demonstrate that he can be sober, considerate, and helpful, regardless of what anyone says or does.


73.
  ... come to regard as hopeless.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.


74.
  ... come to rely upon it.  BB Into Action, p.87
We come to rely upon it.


75.
  ... come to so many?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
Have we alcoholics in A.A. got, or can we get, the resources to meet these calamities which come to so many?


76.
  ... come to sticky ends elsewhere.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
By his eloquence he allayed all fears, despite advice from the Foundation that it could issue no charter, and that ventures which mixed an A.A. group with medication and education had come to sticky ends elsewhere.


77.
  ... come to terms with seeming failure or ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Furthermore, how shall we come to terms with seeming failure or success?


78.
  ... come to the conclusion that our particular ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist: "As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship of my specialty to A.A. and I have come to the conclusion that our particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside help.


79.
  ... come to the point where he desperately ...  BB To Wives, p.110
He may have come to the point where he desperately wants to stop but cannot.


80.
  ... come to the rescue.  12&12 Step Four, p.46
At this stage of the inventory proceedings, our sponsors come to the rescue.


81.
  ... come to them.  BB A Vision For You, p.161
They had seen miracles, and one was to come to them.


82.
  ... come to us, we felt we were ...  12&12 Step Two, p.29
"As material success founded upon no more than these ordinary attributes began to come to us, we felt we were winning at the game of life.


83.
  ... come to you.  BB We Agnostics, p.55
The consciousness of your belief is sure to come to you.


84.
  ... come to you.  BB To Wives, p.116
This experience may come to you.


85.
  ... come, try to pause and count your ...  BB To Wives, p.119
When resentful thoughts come, try to pause and count your blessings.


86.
  ... come up during business hours.  BB To Employers, p.146
He may wish to do a lot for other alcoholics and something of the sort may come up during business hours.


87.
  "Come, what's all this about?" I queried.  BB Bill's Story, p.9
"Come, what's all this about?" I queried.


88.
  ... come when he ought to redouble his ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways.


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