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1.
... great.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
The
temptation to
skip
the more
humiliating and
dreaded meetings that
still
remain may be
great.
2.
... great.
BB p.61,
How It Works
If his
arrangements would only
stay put, if only people would do
as he
wished, the
show would
be
great.
3.
... great.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
If
persisted in for a few
months, the
effect on a
man's
family is
sure to be
great.
4.
... great advantages of doing this will so ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
But if a
willing start is
made, then the
great advantages of doing this will so
quickly reveal themselves
that the
pain will be
lessened as one
obstacle
after another
melts away.
5.
... great amounts of time wishing for what ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Else why would we
consume such
great amounts of
time wishing for what we have
not, rather than
working for it, or
angrily looking for
attributes we shall
never
have, instead of
adjusting to the
fact, and
accepting it?
6.
... great and small, we never knew we ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Possibly, too, we were still
handicapped by many
liabilities,
great and
small, we
never knew we had.
7.
... great big alcoholic center, a kind of ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
8.
... great big happy family.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
9.
... great big lump that we can't begin ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps
life, as it has a way of doing,
suddenly hands us a
great big lump
that we can't
begin to
swallow, let alone
digest.
10.
... great blessings may never spoil us; that ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
This to the
end that our
great
blessings may
never spoil us; that we shall
forever live in
thankful contemplation of Him who
presides over us all.
11.
... great blessings may never spoil us; that ...
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
This to the
end that our
great
blessings may
never spoil us; that we shall
forever live in
thankful contemplation of Him who
presides over us all.
12.
... great boom of the late twenties was ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
13.
... great cause to live for as much ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
Therefore, you
probably need fresh interests and a
great cause to
live for as much as
your
husband.
14.
... great chance for sobriety that we've had.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
We just
want to be
sure that
you get the same
great chance for
sobriety that
we've had.
15.
... great church that means everything to me.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
I
belong to a
great church that
means everything to me.
16.
... great clean wind of a mountain top ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
I
felt lifted up, as though
the
great clean wind of a
mountain top blew through and through.
17.
... great corporations have set their approval upon ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
Employers learn that
great corporations
have
set their
approval
upon us, and
wish to
discover what can be done about
alcoholism in their
own firms.
18.
... great deal.
BB p.113,
To Wives
If he is
enthusiastic your
cooperation will
mean a
great deal.
19.
... great deal.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
A few of us have had these
growing pains and they
hurt a
great deal.
20.
... great deal about the relationship of my ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
21.
... great deal began to happen.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
With the
appearance of the new book a
great deal began to
happen.
22.
... great deal, but we almost invariably temper ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
We do
talk about each other a
great deal, but we almost
invariably temper such
talk by a
spirit of
love and
tolerance.
23.
... great deal can be accomplished by the ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
Meanwhile, we are
sure a
great deal can be
accomplished by the use of the book alone.
24.
... great deal of ardent Twelfth Step work ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
By a
great deal of
ardent Twelfth Step work we sometimes
carry the
message to so many
alcoholics that they place us in a
position of
trust.
25.
... great deal of business life, at least ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
26.
... great deal of spree drinking.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
A
man of
thirty was doing a
great deal of
spree drinking.
27.
... great deal of what we read, highlights ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Much of the
everyday talk
we
hear, and a
great deal of what we
read,
highlights man's
pride in his
own achievements.
28.
... great deal to his community, and the ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
As we shall see, he now
means a
great deal to his
community, and the
major liabilities of
thirty years of
hard drinking have been
repaired in
four.
29.
... great deeds, and embody great ideals.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Nearly every one of us had
wished to do
great good,
perform great deeds, and
embody great ideals.
30.
... great difficulty in casting aside such feelings.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Though some of us
resisted, we
found no
great difficulty in
casting aside such
feelings.
31.
... great distilling companies proposed to go into ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
32.
... great dividend we may expect from confiding ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Another
great dividend we
may
expect from
confiding our
defects to
another
human being is
humility -- a
word often
misunderstood.
33.
... great events will come to pass for ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
See to it that your
relationship with Him is
right, and
great events will
come to
pass for you and
countless
others.
34.
... great extremes to provide each other with ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Yet we do go to
great extremes to
provide each
other with these very things, when such
action is
warranted.
35.
... Great Fact for us.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
This is the
Great Fact for us.
36.
... great fact is just this, and nothing ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
37.
... great for preservation of the Fellowship.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
Realization dawns that
he is but a
small part of a
great whole; that no
personal sacrifice is
too
great for
preservation of the
Fellowship.
38.
... great gains we make under the influence ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
More
realism and therefore more
honesty about ourselves are the
great gains we make under the
influence of
Step Five.
39.
... great good, perform great deeds, and embody ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Nearly every one of us had
wished to do
great good,
perform great deeds, and
embody great ideals.
40.
"Great guns!" he said.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
41.
... great harm.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
42.
... great havoc without in the least intending ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
Under such an
illusion, he can of
course create great havoc without in the
least intending it.
43.
... great help, but they could not be ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Volunteer committeemen and
assistants could be of
great help, but they could not be
expected to
carry this
load day in and
day out.
44.
... great help in quieting stormy emotions.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
45.
... great hope that all those who have ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our
great hope that all those who have as
yet found no
answer may
begin to find one
in the
pages of this book and will
presently join us on the
high road to a new
freedom.
46.
... great, however, a long period of patient ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
When the
distortion has been
great, however, a
long period of
patient striving may be
necessary.
47.
... great human accomplishments, a creative energy that ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
48.
... great ideals.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Nearly every one of us had
wished to do
great good,
perform great deeds, and
embody great ideals.
49.
... great increase in the size and the ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
In
spite of the
great increase in the
size and the
span of this
Fellowship,
at
its core it
remains simple and
personal.
50.
... great increase in this helpful interchange.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
There is a
good bit of
travel between
East and
West and we
foresee a
great increase in this
helpful interchange.
51.
... great intelligence, men of science have been ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
52.
... great interference with your pleasures, interruptions to ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
53.
... great joys in return.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
54.
... great liner the moment after rescue from ...
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
55.
... great love are A.A.'s disciplinarians; we need ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
Great suffering and
great love are
A.A.'s
disciplinarians;
we
need no others.
56.
... great man, not too closely followed by ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
To
Christ I
conceded the
certainty of a
great man, not too
closely followed by those who
claimed Him.
57.
... great many of us have never really ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
The
emphasis on
inventory is
heavy only
because a
great many of us have
never really
acquired the
habit of
accurate self-
appraisal.
58.
... great many years.
BB xxxii(xxx),
The Doctor's Opinion
He has not had a
drink for a
great many
years.
59.
... great measure.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
But that would be in
great measure.
60.
... great medical benefactor.
BB xi,
Preface
61.
... great men and women of all religions ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
We won't have far to
seek; the
great men and
women of all
religions have
left us a
wonderful supply.
62.
... great moment is apt to occur.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
And when
humility and
serenity are so
combined,
something else of
great moment is
apt to
occur.
63.
... great moments of the past.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
Never could we
recapture
the
great moments of the
past.
64.
... great natural assets, the instincts, have turned ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
65.
... great necessity for discussing ourselves with someone, ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
Notwithstanding the
great necessity for
discussing ourselves with someone, it may be one
is so
situated that there is no
suitable person available.
66.
... great news this book carries to those ...
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
This is the
great news this
book
carries to those who
suffer from
alcoholism.
67.
... great news to us, for we had ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
That was
great news to us, for
we had
assumed we could not make use of
spiritual principles
unless we
accepted many
things on
faith which
seemed difficult to
believe.
68.
... great numbers of such experiences, we could ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
From
great numbers of such
experiences, we could
predict that the
doubter
who still
claimed that he hadn't got the "
spiritual angle," and who
still
considered his well-
loved A.A. group the
higher power, would
presently love God and call Him by
name.
69.
... great numbers of these -- about two out ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
But
great numbers of these
-- about
two out of
three --
began to
return as
time passed.
70.
... great numbers of yet erratic people could ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
But it was by no
means sure
that such
great numbers of
yet erratic people could
live and
work together with
harmony and
good effect.
71.
... great obsession of every abnormal drinker.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
The
idea that somehow,
someday he will
control and
enjoy his
drinking is the
great obsession of every
abnormal drinker.
72.
... great obstacle to a spiritual experience.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
73.
... great one, was felt at once.
BB p.63,
How It Works
This was only a
beginning, though if
honestly and
humbly made,
an
effect, sometimes a very
great one, was
felt at once.
74.
... great or small.
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
75.
... great paradox of A.A. that we know ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
It is the
great paradox of
A.A. that we
know we can
seldom keep the
precious gift of
sobriety unless we
give it away.
76.
... great persuader.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
In this
respect alcohol
was a
great persuader.
77.
... great physician's opinion.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
That was a
great physician's
opinion.
78.
... Great Reality deep down within us.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We
found the
Great Reality deep down
within us.
79.
... Great Reality -- their loving and All Powerful ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
They had
visioned the
Great Reality -- their
loving and All
Powerful Creator.
80.
... great resolution to approach him or her.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
Even when you've
found the
person, it
frequently takes great resolution to
approach
him or her.
81.
... great responsibility fell upon us to develop ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
82.
... great revulsion has risen up in him.
BB p.57,
We Agnostics
Save for a few
brief moments of
temptation
the
thought of
drink has
never returned; and at
such
times a
great revulsion has
risen up in
him.
83.
... great rise.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
I
rightly imagined that
they would some
day have a
great rise.
84.
... great sarcasm Ed came back at them.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
With
great sarcasm Ed came back at them.
85.
... great self-confidence, but it didn't fully solve ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
Some of us once had
great self-
confidence, but it
didn't
fully solve the
fear problem, or any other.
86.
... great sense of purpose, accompanied by a ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
87.
... great service for Alcoholics Anonymous, because it ...
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
Moreover, it had
performed a
great service for
Alcoholics Anonymous,
because it had been
humbly willing to
apply the
lessons it
learned.
88.
... great sigh of relief, saying, "Well, thank ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
When we have finally
admitted without
reservation that we are
powerless over
alcohol,
we are
apt to
breathe a
great sigh of
relief, saying, "Well,
thank
God that's over!
89.
... great solemn oaths that they were through ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our
men have
sworn great solemn oaths that they were through
drinking forever.
90.
... great stuff.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
91.
... great successes or dismal failures.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to
drink because at
work we were
great successes or
dismal failures.
92.
Great suffering and great love are A.A.'s ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
Great suffering and
great love are
A.A.'s
disciplinarians;
we
need no others.
93.
... great, that we felt his only hope ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
His
alcoholic problem
was so
complex, and his
depression so
great, that
we
felt his only
hope would be
through what we then called "
moral psychology," and we
doubted if even that would have any
effect.
94.
... great, the emotional harm we have done ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
In many
instances we shall find that though the
harm done others has not been
great, the
emotional harm we have done ourselves has.
95.
... great the necessity or the wish.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
This is the
baffling feature of
alcoholism as
we
know it -- this
utter inability to
leave it
alone, no
matter how
great
the
necessity or the
wish.
96.
... great therapeutic weapon.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
97.
... great thing A.A. might have been!"
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Back again in their
caves,
alcoholics would
reproach us and say, "What a
great thing
A.A. might have been!"
98.
... great things A.A. would be able to ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
What
great things
A.A. would be
able to do with it!
99.
... great thought came.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Then, like a
thunderbolt, a
great thought came.
100.
... great thunderclouds of dispute may gather.
BB p.117,
To Wives
101.
... great tide at flood.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
It
poured over and through him with the
certainty and
majesty of
a
great tide at
flood.
102.
... great tidings.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
103.
... great to be overcome.
BB p.104,
To Wives
We
want to
leave you with the
feeling that no
situation is too
difficult and no
unhappiness too
great to
be
overcome.
104.
... great trouble, practically all the trouble there ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
When thus out of
joint,
man's
natural desires cause him
great trouble,
practically
all the
trouble there is.
105.
... great turning point in our lives came ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
A
great turning point in our
lives came when we
sought for
humility as something we really
wanted, rather than as something we
must have.
106.
... great values.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
If our
circumstances happened to be
good, we no
longer dreaded a
change for the
worse, for we
had
learned that these
troubles could be
turned
into
great values.
107.
... great venture in social pioneering which forged ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
108.
... great wall had been built around them.
BB p.107,
To Wives
Sometimes they were so
inaccessible that it
seemed as though a
great wall had been
built around them.
109.
... great was the sum of our anxiety ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
If all those
rules had been in
effect everywhere,
nobody could have
possibly
joined A.A. at all, so
great was the
sum of our
anxiety and
fear.
110.
... great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
111.
... great, we will more surely keep our ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
112.
... great wealth, prestige, and entrenched power which ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
113.
... great whole.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition One (Long)
One -- Each
member of
Alcoholics Anonymous
is but a
small part of a
great whole.
114.
... great whole.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
115.
... great whole; that no personal sacrifice is ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
Realization dawns that
he is but a
small part of a
great whole; that no
personal sacrifice is
too
great for
preservation of the
Fellowship.
116.
... great willingness even to begin.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
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