Home Page

  The 164 and More book is sold on this website at the Publisher List Price of $20.00 plus postage.
  The book may also be sold by Intergroup/Central Offices or recovery book stores at List Price
  or slightly higher.  But beware of others that sell the book marked up 400% or more.
  For the same money, you could buy 4 books and use 3 as sponsee gifts.


Search "164 and More"
 
The Book "164 and More"
 
About Recovery Press

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


Click the page number or the book cover icon    to view that page in the literature.


1.
  ... father.  BB To Wives, p.106
We have tried to hold the love of our children for their father.


2.
  ... father.  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
If the family persists in criticism, this fallacy may take a still greater hold on father.


3.
  ... father and mother.  BB To Wives, p.106
Perhaps at this point we got a divorce and took the children home to father and mother.


4.
  ... father and mother were considerably above the ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
Both father and mother were considerably above the average in intelligence.


5.
  ... father and mother were most active in ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
My father was a professional man of recognized ability and both my father and mother were most active in church affairs.


6.
  ... father and the family are mistaken, though ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
Both father and the family are mistaken, though each side may have some justification.


7.
  ... Father, and we are His children.  BB How It Works, p.62
He is the Father, and we are His children.


8.
  ... father as a sick or wayward child.  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
By force of circumstances, she was often obliged to treat father as a sick or wayward child.


9.
  Father, coming suddenly to life again, often ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Father, coming suddenly to life again, often begins to assert himself.


10.
  ... Father doeth the works" began to carry ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
But now the words "Of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth the works" began to carry bright promise and meaning.


11.
  ... Father Ed, an early and wonderful friend ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A. (Note), p.572
(*) Father Ed, an early and wonderful friend of A.A., died in the spring of 1960.


12.
  Father feels he has struck something better ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
Father feels he has struck something better than gold.


13.
  ... father for so many years that mother ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
Liquor incapacitated father for so many years that mother became head of the house.


14.
  ... father had to send a doctor out ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
Finally my father had to send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.


15.
  ... father has, at the outset, a stirring ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
Assume on the other hand that father has, at the outset, a stirring spiritual experience.


16.
  ... father-in-law became ill.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
The house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.


17.
  ... father is a bit balmy!  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
They suspect father is a bit balmy!


18.
  ... father, it is best not to take ...  BB To Wives, p.115
Unless they actually need protection from their father, it is best not to take sides in any argument he has with them while drinking.


19.
  Father knows he is to blame; it ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
Father knows he is to blame; it may take him many seasons of hard work to be restored financially, but he shouldn't be reproached.


20.
  Father may have laid aside for years ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Father may have laid aside for years all normal activities -- clubs, civic duties, sports.


21.
  ... Father of Light who presides over us ...  BB Bill's Story, p.14
I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us all.


22.
  ... father of promising children of college age.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
His income is good, he has a fine home, is happily married and the father of promising children of college age.


23.
  ... father owes them more than they are ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
Having been neglected and misused in the past, they think father owes them more than they are getting.


24.
  ... father takes this tack, the family may ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
When father takes this tack, the family may react unfavorably.


25.
  ... father usually obeyed.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
When sober, father usually obeyed.


26.
  ... father was a professional man of recognized ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
My father was a professional man of recognized ability and both my father and mother were most active in church affairs.


27.
  ... father was beyond human aid.  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
They often forget father was beyond human aid.


28.
  ... father was romantic, thoughtful and successful.  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
They remember when father was romantic, thoughtful and successful.


29.
  ... father was sick, which was much nearer ...  BB To Wives, p.106
We have told small tots that father was sick, which was much nearer the truth than we realized.


30.
  ... father, who made a long journey in ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
There my drinking became so much worse that the boys in the fraternity house where I lived felt forced to send for my father, who made a long journey in the vain endeavor to get me straightened around.


31.
  ... father who see their son wasting away.  BB To Wives, p.104
But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.


32.
  Father will necessarily spend much time with ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Father will necessarily spend much time with other alcoholics, but this activity should be balanced.


33.
  ... Father will never let you down!  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!


34.
  ... father will see he gives too little.  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
Little by little, mother and children will see they ask too much, and father will see he gives too little.


The 164 and More™ Book, eBook, and Web Site are all CONCORDANCES which display passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, and the A.A. Grapevine (A.A. Preamble only).  Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the 164 and More concordance does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc., or the A.A. Grapevine, Inc.  Further A.A.W.S. Inc. and the A.A. Grapevine Inc. have no objection to the use of this material in the 164 and More concordance.

Top of Screen  Top