"opportunity" in the Big Book

Then I got a promising business opportunity.

Many could recover if they had the opportunity we have enjoyed.

If that is so, this step may be postponed, only, however, if we hold ourselves in complete readiness to go through with it at the first opportunity.

We may kill a future opportunity to carry a beneficial message.

You may spoil a later opportunity.

To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be happy.

Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.

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.

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.

Why not at least afford him an opportunity to hear my story?

They often jeopardize their own positions by trying to help serious drinkers who should have been fired long ago, or else given an opportunity to get well.

selves, and have discovered the joy of helping others to face life again, there will be no stopping until everyone in that town has had his opportunity to recover— if he can and will.