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


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1.
  ... given.  BB Working With Others, p.90
Here no specific rule can be given.


2.
  ... given.  12&12 Step Four, p.42
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and right, and surely God-given.


3.
  ... given.  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Often these personalities are just as sharply defined as the examples given.


4.
  ... given a determined and persistent trial.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
Then it is explained that other Steps of the A.A. program can be practiced with success only when Step Three is given a determined and persistent trial.


5.
  ... given a long-term meaning.  12&12 Step Six, p.69
That word, in the mind of a rationalizing alcoholic, could certainly be given a long-term meaning.


6.
  ... given A.A. their blessing.  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
Clergymen of practically every denomination have given A.A. their blessing.


7.
  ... given Alcoholics Anonymous.  BB Appendix IV, The Lasker Award, p.571
In 1951 the Lasker Award was given Alcoholics Anonymous.


8.
  ... given an opportunity to get well.  BB To Employers, p.147
They often jeopardize their own positions by trying to help serious drinkers who should have been fired long ago, or else given an opportunity to get well.


9.
  ... given and therefore good, neither to be ...  BB How It Works, p.69
We remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed.


10.
  ... given away.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Five), p.11
Sobriety can't be kept unless it is given away.


11.
  ... given by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
Speaking at a dinner given by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to introduce Alcoholics Anonymous to some of his friends, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick remarked:


12.
  ... given by magazines and newspapers throughout the ...  12&12 Foreword, p.17
In the next years alcoholics flocked to A.A. by tens of thousands, largely as the result of excellent and continuous publicity freely given by magazines and newspapers throughout the world.


13.
  ... given five thousand dollars to do with ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
One A.A. group was given five thousand dollars to do with what it would.


14.
  ... given for his family also.  BB Working With Others, p.90
This advice is given for his family also.


15.
  ... given help is the very thing which ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.


16.
  ... given here may be adapted to help ...  BB To Wives (Note), p.104
(*) Written in 1939, when there were few women in A.A., this chapter assumes that the alcoholic in the home is likely to be the husband. But many of the suggestions given here may be adapted to help the person who lives with a woman alcoholic -- whether she is still drinking or is recovering in A.A. A further source of help is noted on page 121.


17.
  ... given him.  12&12 Tradition Two, pp.132-133
Alone now, he reflects that he may not be able to stay sober, or even alive, unless he passes on to other alcoholics what was so freely given him.


18.
  ... given in this foreword describe the Fellowship ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
Figures given in this foreword describe the Fellowship as it was in 1955.


19.
  ... given instincts.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts.


20.
  ... given me.  BB Bill's Story, p.14
While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands of hopeless alcoholics who might be glad to have what had been so freely given me.


21.
  ... given me a special token of appreciation?  BB Bill's Story, p.1
I fancied myself a leader, for had not the men of my battery given me a special token of appreciation?


22.
  ... given offense.  12&12 Step Eight, p.81
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human relations, and having decided exactly what personality traits in us injured and disturbed others, we can now commence to ransack memory for the people to whom we have given offense.


23.
  ... given our emotions violent twists which have ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
At the time of these occurrences, they may actually have given our emotions violent twists which have since discolored our personalities and altered our lives for the worse.


24.
  ... given purpose and direction to millions.  BB We Agnostics, p.49
We have learned that whatever the human frailties of various faiths may be, those faiths have given purpose and direction to millions.


25.
  ... given set of conditions.  12&12 Step Nine, p.87
But all of them do require a complete willingness to make amends as fast and as far as may be possible in a given set of conditions.


26.
  ... given showing how we recovered.  BB There Is A Solution, p.29
Further on, clear-cut directions are given showing how we recovered.


27.
  ... given strength and direction to do the ...  BB Into Action, p.79
Reminding ourselves that we have decided to go to any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.


28.
  ... given surely brings a full return, the ...  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.


29.
  ... given the courage to declare each A.A. ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
This meant, of course, that we had been given the courage to declare each A.A. group an individual entity, strictly reliant on its own conscience as a guide to action.


30.
  ... given the grace by which we may ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His will that we can have for that day, and that we be given the grace by which we may carry it out.


31.
  ... given the power to help others.  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
We have recovered, and have been given the power to help others.


32.
  ... given the power to reason, to examine ...  BB We Agnostics, p.53
It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our senses, and to draw conclusions.


33.
  ... given their needs.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
New acquaintances who know nothing of alcoholism might be made and thoughtful considerations given their needs.


34.
  ... given them up.  BB To Wives, p.113
Everybody had given them up.


35.
  ... given these doctors a fair break.  BB Into Action, p.73
We know but few instances where we have given these doctors a fair break.


36.
  ... given to any other human being without ...  12&12 Step Two, p.32
In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves, made amends to those we had harmed, or freely given to any other human being without any demand for reward.


37.
  ... given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"


38.
  ... given us?  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
How then shall we present that which has been so freely given us?


39.
  ... given us certain values.  12&12 Step Two, pp.28-29
Of course, we were glad that good home and religious training had given us certain values.


40.
  ... given us or, if you prefer, "a ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
A new life has been given us or, if you prefer, "a design for living" that really works.


41.
  ... given us, we felt it perfectly natural ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
And considering the rough deal life had given us, we felt it perfectly natural that we were sensitive.


42.
  ... given us without any thought or effort ...  BB Into Action, p.85
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part.


43.
  ... given whatever we need to take care ...  BB Into Action, p.87
We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems.


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