The 12 Steps
This can restore us to sanity.
What is a Power greater than ourselves?
The author of the doctor's opinion
Who is William D Silkworth
When we became alcoholics we had to fearlessly face this proposition about God.
What is "God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't"?
He gets a thrill by skipping in front of fast moving vehicles.
Who is "The Jaywalker"?
We have to live this.
What is a spiritual life?
We made a decision to turn this over to the care of God as we understood Him.
What is our will and our lives?
In late 1934, I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman of good earning capacity was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as...
What is Hopeless?
The short question we must ask ourselves.
"Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?"
Our hats are off to somebody like this.
What is "anyone who can do the right-about-face and drink like a gentleman"?
This, shown from our practical experience, can ensure immunity from drinking.
What is working with other alcoholics?
We became willing to make amends to those on this list.
What is people we had harmed?
This never occurs in the average temperate drinker.
What is the phenomenon of craving?
We found that _____ does not make too hard terms for those who seek Him.
Who is God?
This is the truth we learn when we begin to drink after a period of sobriety, and in a short time are as bad as ever.
What is "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic"?
Terror, bewilderment, frustration, and Despair.
What are the Four Horseman?
We admitted this to God, ourselves, and another human being.
What is the exact nature of our wrongs?
To them the alcoholic life seems normal, and a few drinks will relieve them of being.
What is restless, irritable, and discontented?
Deep down in in every man, woman, and child is the __________ _____ of God.
What is Fundamental Idea?
The thought that whiskey in milk couldn't hurt him on a full stomach should be called.
What is plain insanity?
According to Herbert Spencer, this principal is a bar against all information, is proof against all arguments, and cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance.
What is contempt prior to investigation?
We prayed and meditated for this.
What is to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him?
Among physicians the general opinion seems to be that most chronic alcoholics share this description.
What is DOOMED?
If you wish you can join us on the _______ _______.
What is Broad Highway?
The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink, except...
What is a Higher Power?
He went to meet him on Mother's Day?
Who is Bill W.?