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

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PROGRAM   occurs   41 times 28 in BB  •  13 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... program.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
Other thousands came to a few A.A. meetings and at first decided they didn't want the program.


2.
  ... program.  BB Working With Others, p.94
Your candidate may give reasons why he need not follow all of the program.


3.
  ... program.  BB To Wives, p.113
Avoid urging him to follow our program.


4.
  ... program.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
They criticize, pointing out how he is falling down on his spiritual program.


5.
  ... program.  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program.


6.
  ... program."  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
I now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be the task of breaking down the patient's inner resistance so that which is inside him will flower, as under the activity of the A.A. program."


7.
  ... program.  12&12 Introduction, p.14
We hope that the collective spiritual experience of the A.A. pioneers captured in these pages continues to help alcoholics and friends of A.A. understand the principles of our program.


8.
  ... program.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
A.A.'s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the Twelve Steps in our program.


9.
  ... program.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
"Then, hesitantly, I ventured to talk about the spiritual side of our program.


10.
  ... program..."; and still another, "We saw a ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.180
One voice says, "I read a piece in the newspapers..."; another, "We heard a radio program..."; and still another, "We saw a moving picture..." or "We saw something about A.A. on television...."


11.
  ... program as a guide for husbands, wives, ...  BB To Wives (Note), p.121
(*) The fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups was formed about thirteen years after this chapter was written. Though it is entirely separate from Alcoholics Anonymous, it uses the general principles of the A.A. program as a guide for husbands, wives, relatives, friends and others close to alcoholics. The foregoing pages (though addressed only to wives) indicate the problems such people may face. Alateen, for teen-aged children of alcoholics, is a part of Al-Anon.


12.
  ... program as enthusiastically as I could.  12&12 Step Two, p.27
To acquire it, I had only to stop fighting and practice the rest of A.A.'s program as enthusiastically as I could.


13.
  ... program at once.  BB To Wives, p.113
He may not share your enthusiasm, but he is practically sure to read the book and he may go for the program at once.


14.
  ... program can be practiced with success only ...  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.


15.
  ... program can work for me too."  BB Preface, p.xii
If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me"; or, more important, "Yes, I've felt like that"; or, most important, "Yes, I believe this program can work for me too."


16.
  ... program come in.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in.


17.
  ... program day by day.  BB Working With Others, p.99
Let the alcoholic continue his program day by day.


18.
  ... program for anyone concerned with a drinking ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
This should suggest a useful program for anyone concerned with a drinking problem.


19.
  ... program, for nothing will be so helpful ...  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.


20.
  ... program, has been left largely untouched in ...  BB Preface, p.xi
Therefore, the first portion of this volume, describing the A.A. recovery program, has been left largely untouched in the course of revisions made for the second, third, and fourth editions.


21.
  ... program has been made.  12&12 Step Three, p.39
Of course the sponsor points out that our friend's life is still unmanageable even though he is sober, that after all, only a bare start on A.A.'s program has been made.


22.
  ... program has brought recovery to those of ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
The basic principles of the A.A. program, it appears, hold good for individuals with many different lifestyles, just as the program has brought recovery to those of many different nationalities.


23.
  ... program in our daily lives so that ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our daily lives so that we and those about us may find emotional sobriety.


24.
  ... program, it appears, hold good for individuals ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
The basic principles of the A.A. program, it appears, hold good for individuals with many different lifestyles, just as the program has brought recovery to those of many different nationalities.


25.
  ... program, making a better practical use of ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.


26.
  ... program may be called los Doce Pasos ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
The Twelve Steps that summarize the program may be called los Doce Pasos in one country, les Douze Etapes in another, but they trace exactly the same path to recovery that was blazed by the earliest members of Alcoholics Anonymous.


27.
  ... program of action.  BB Bill's Story, p.9
They had told of a simple religious idea and a practical program of action.


28.
  ... program of action and rest on our ...  BB Into Action, p.85
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels.


29.
  ... program of action, explaining how you made ...  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.
  ... program of action, though entirely sensible, was ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
But the program of action, though entirely sensible, was pretty drastic.


31.
  ... program of action which a hundred of ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
"Then they outlined the spiritual answer and program of action which a hundred of them had followed successfully.


32.
  ... program of recovery:  BB How It Works, p.59
Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:


33.
  ... program of recovery.  BB Working With Others, p.96
He has read this volume and says he is prepared to go through with the Twelve Steps of the program of recovery.


34.
  ... program of recovery he can go anywhere ...  BB To Employers, p.147
If he is conscientiously following the program of recovery he can go anywhere your business may call him.


35.
  ... program of recovery mentioned in the preceding ...  BB Into Action, p.72
This brings us to the Fifth Step in the program of recovery mentioned in the preceding chapter.


36.
  ... program requires no willpower; here is one ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
No one ought to say the A.A. program requires no willpower; here is one place you may require all you've got.


37.
  ... program, the process has begun.  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
The moment we tell our families that we are really going to try the program, the process has begun.


38.
  ... program, they wondered why they fell.  BB Into Action, p.73
Having persevered with the rest of the program, they wondered why they fell.


39.
  ... program unless they have hit bottom.  12&12 Step One, p.24
The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom.


40.
  ... program, usually men and women who are ...  BB How It Works, p.58
Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.


41.
  ... program will rest upon how well and ...  12&12 Step Three, p.34
In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."


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.

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