"desire" in the Big Book

My incredible behavior in the face of a desperate desire to stop was explained.

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 condi­

At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

But the difficulty is that few alcoholics have enough desire to stop while there is yet time.

We have heard of a few instances where people, who showed definite signs of alcoholism, were able to stop for a long period because of an overpowering desire to do so.

If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and will have learned our lesson.

But our man is sure to be impressed with a sincere desire to set right the wrong.

Unless one’s family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them.

If he is to find God, the desire must come from within.

Our loyalty and the desire that our husbands hold up their heads and be like other men have begotten all sorts of predicaments.

Your desire to protect him should not cause you to lie to people when they have a right to know where he is and what he is doing.

If you desire to help it might be well to disregard your own drinking, or lack of it.

You may have to curb his desire to work sixteen hours a day.

He had a desperate desire to stop, but saw no way out, for he had earnestly tried many avenues of escape.