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

hellish
help
helped
HELPFUL   occurs   32 times 28 in BB  •  4 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... helpful.  BB How It Works, p.67
If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful.


2.
  ... helpful.  BB Working With Others, p.102
Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful.


3.
  ... helpful.  BB To Wives, p.120
Cheer him up and ask him how you can be still more helpful.


4.
  ... helpful.  BB To Employers, p.140
If your decision is yes, whether the reason be humanitarian or business or both, then the following suggestions may be helpful.


5.
  ... helpful.  BB To Employers, p.146
A reasonable amount of latitude will be helpful.


6.
  ... helpful.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
He gave me information about the subject of alcoholism which was undoubtedly helpful.


7.
  ... helpful.  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
Whenever we fail any of these people, we can promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to them also, when the admission would be helpful.


8.
  ... helpful and forgiving spirit, confessing our former ...  BB Into Action, p.77
We go to him in a helpful and forgiving spirit, confessing our former ill feeling and expressing our regret.


9.
  ... helpful books also.  BB Into Action, p.87
There are many helpful books also.


10.
  ... helpful, but we think we can render ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
The experiment of quitting for a period of time will be helpful, but we think we can render an even greater service to alcoholic sufferers and perhaps to the medical fraternity.


11.
  ... helpful came along, he found he could ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
When opportunities to be helpful came along, he found he could talk easily about A.A. to almost anyone.


12.
  ... helpful discussion.  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
As each member of a resentful family begins to see his shortcomings and admits them to the others, he lays a basis for helpful discussion.


13.
  ... helpful he can really be, the conversation ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
When your mission is carefully explained, and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence how helpful he can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager.


14.
  ... helpful, his wife commenced to admonish him ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
Seeing this, and meaning to be helpful, his wife commenced to admonish him about it.


15.
  ... helpful if you do.  BB Working With Others, p.100
You may spoil your chance of being helpful if you do.


16.
  ... helpful interchange.  BB A Vision For You, p.162
There is a good bit of travel between East and West and we foresee a great increase in this helpful interchange.


17.
  ... helpful is our only aim.  BB Working With Others, p.89
To be helpful is our only aim.


18.
  ... helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading this book in manuscript form told us that the use of sweets was often helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's advice.


19.
  ... helpful, or of some special problem that ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
Perhaps we think of our day's work and the chances it may afford us to be useful and helpful, or of some special problem that it may bring.


20.
  ... helpful rather than critical.  BB To Wives, p.111
Let him see that you want to be helpful rather than critical.


21.
  ... helpful, regardless of what anyone says or ...  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.


22.
  ... helpful, so I spent two hours talking ...  BB To Employers, p.138
This seemed to me like an opportunity to be helpful, so I spent two hours talking about alcoholism, the malady, and described the symptoms and results as well as I could.


23.
  ... helpful suggestion only.  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
We intend the foregoing as a helpful suggestion only.


24.
  ... helpful suggestions.  BB To Employers, p.145
If he speaks of his home situation, you can undoubtedly make helpful suggestions.


25.
  ... helpful; that there are no fees to ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
That the man who is making the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found most effective.


26.
  ... helpful to all people, but at least ...  BB How It Works, p.67
We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.


27.
  ... helpful to anyone.  BB Working With Others, p.103
Experience shows that such an attitude is not helpful to anyone.


28.
  ... helpful to him?  BB How It Works, p.67
How can I be helpful to him?


29.
  ... helpful to him.  BB Working With Others, p.94
Outline the program of action, explaining how you made a self-appraisal, how you straightened out your past and why you are now endeavoring to be helpful to him.


30.
  ... helpful to such cases.  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiv
We should like to be helpful to such cases.


31.
  ... helpful to those who are afflicted.  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiv
We simply wish to be helpful to those who are afflicted.


32.
  ... helpful to your husband as the radically ...  BB To Wives, p.117
We urge you to try our program, for nothing will be so helpful to your husband as the radically changed attitude toward him which God will show you how to have.


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