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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
STRENGTH occurs
23 times
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1.
... strength.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
We
perceive that only through
utter defeat are we able to
take our
first steps toward liberation and
strength.
2.
... strength.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
And far from being a
weakness, this
dependence was their
chief
source of
strength.
3.
... strength.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
Each
needed to
consider
the others, and in
abiding faith they
knew they
must find their
real strength.
4.
... strength.
BB p.68,
How It Works
Paradoxically, it is the way of
strength.
5.
... strength and
direction, I became irritated and ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
When they
talked of a
God personal to me, who was
love,
superhuman strength and
direction, I
became irritated and my
mind snapped shut against such a
theory.
6.
... strength and
direction to do the right ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
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.
7.
... strength, and
hope.
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Each
day, somewhere in the
world,
recovery begins when one
alcoholic
talks with another
alcoholic,
sharing experience,
strength, and
hope.
8.
... strength, and
hope with each other, in ...
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any
meeting, anywhere,
A.A.'s
share experience,
strength, and
hope with each other, in
order to
stay sober and
help other
alcoholics.
9.
... strength and
hope with each other that ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a
fellowship of
men and
women who
share their
experience,
strength and
hope with each other that they may
solve their
common problem and
help others to
recover from
alcoholism.
10.
... strength and
intelligence, for just that long ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
For just so
long as we were
convinced that we could
live
exclusively by our
own
individual strength and
intelligence, for just that
long was a
working faith in a
Higher Power impossible.
11.
... strength and
peace that could not be ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
These were the new
attitudes that finally
brought many of us an
inner strength and
peace that could not
be
deeply shaken by the
shortcomings of others or by any
calamity not of our
own making.
12.
... strength and
resources alone.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
When a
man or a
woman has a
spiritual awakening,
the most
important meaning of it is that he has now
become able to do,
feel, and
believe that which he could not do before on his
unaided strength and
resources alone.
13.
... strength, and
the atmosphere of His grace.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
We all
need the
light of
God's
reality, the
nourishment of His
strength, and the
atmosphere
of His
grace.
14.
... strength, as
I go out from here, ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
Grant me
strength, as I go
out from here, to do your
bidding.
15.
... strength, inspiration,
and direction from Him who ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
Much has already been said about
receiving strength,
inspiration, and
direction from Him who has all
knowledge and
power.
16.
... strength not
ordinarily their own.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
All those who have
persisted have
found strength not
ordinarily their
own.
17.
... strength of
purpose and action.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
They see
liberty verging
on
license,
yet they
recognize at once that
A.A.
has an
irresistible strength of
purpose and
action.
18.
... strength our
means of survival.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Since
recovery from
alcoholism is
life itself
to us, it is
imperative that we
preserve in
full strength our
means of
survival.
19.
... strength out
of weakness.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
We
heard story after
story of how
humility had
brought
strength out of
weakness.
20.
... strength to
do the right thing.
BB p.70,
How It Works
To
sum up about
sex: We
earnestly pray for the
right ideal, for
guidance in each
questionable situation, for
sanity, and
for the
strength to do the
right thing.
21.
... strength to
meet my problems as He ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I was to
sit quietly when in
doubt,
asking only for
direction and
strength to
meet my
problems as He would
have me.
22.
... strength until
we first admit complete defeat ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The
principle that we shall find no
enduring strength until we
first admit complete defeat is the
main taproot from which our
whole Society has
sprung and
flowered.
23.
... strength which,
in one way or another, ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
In a very
real sense he has
been
transformed, because he has
laid hold of a
source of
strength which, in
one way or another, he had
hitherto denied himself.
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