"ill" in the Big Book

The house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.

Best of all, I met a kind doctor who explained that though certainly selfish and foolish, I had been seriously ill, bodily and mentally.

You may already have asked yourself why it is that all of us became so very ill from drinking.

If a sufficiently strong reason—ill health, falling in love, change of environment, or the warning of a doctor—becomes operative, this man can also stop or moderate, although he may find it difficult and troublesome and may even need medical attention.

From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.

We go to him in a helpful and forgiving spirit, confessing our former ill feeling and expressing our regret.

Remember they are very ill.

When he angers you, remember that he is very ill.

The entire family is, to some extent, ill.”

If you concede that your employee is ill, can he be forgiven for what he has done in the past?

Say that you believe he is a gravely ill person, with this qualification—being perhaps fatally ill, does he want to get well?

It was the usual situation: home in jeopardy, wife ill, children distracted, bills in arrears and standing damaged.