"problems" in the Big Book

My schoolmate visited me, and I fully acquainted him with my problems and deficiencies.

I was to sit quietly when in doubt, asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me.

My friend promised when these things were done I would enter upon a new relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my problems.

My wife and I abandoned ourselves with enthusiasm to the idea of helping other alcoholics to a solution of their problems.

He seemed quite rational and well-balanced with respect to other problems.

Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, “Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing.”

I reasoned I was not so far advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.

Neither did I have any pressing problems or worries.

“Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems.

Most alcoholics have to be pretty badly mangled before they really commence to solve their problems.

Many times we talk to a new man and watch his hope rise as we discuss his alcoholic problems and explain our fellowship.

We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn’t apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view.

When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God.

We agnostics and atheists were sticking to the idea that self-sufficiency would solve our problems.

Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.

We all have sex problems.

We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems.

Get an idea of his behavior, his problems, his background, the seriousness of his condition, and his religious leanings.

If you have been successful in solving your own domestic problems, tell the newcomer’s family how that was accomplished.

After all, our problems were of our own making.

If God can solve the age-old riddle of alcoholism, He can solve your problems too.

When we do that, we find it solves our problems too; the ensuing lack of fear, worry and hurt feelings is a wonderful

But all problems will not be solved at once.

Many of the old problems will still be with you.

You and your husband will find that you can dispose of serious problems easier than you can the trivial ones.

The foregoing pages (though addressed only to wives) indicate the problems such people may face.

In either case certain family problems will arise.

The problems of the community might engage attention.

Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons.

If he feels free to discuss his problems with you, if he knows you under­

his problems squarely that God might give him mastery.

Aside from fellowship and sociability, the prime object was to provide a time and place where new people might bring their problems.

The very practical approach to his problems, the absence of intolerance of any kind, the informality, the genuine democracy, the uncanny understanding which these people had were irresistible.