"work" in the Big Book

My work took me about Wall Street and little by little I became interested in the market.

My wife began to work in a department store, coming home exhausted to find me drunk.

My wife was at work.

My intellectual heroes, the chemists, the astronomers, even the evolutionists, suggested vast laws and forces at work.

Here was something at work in a human heart which had done the impossible.

They in turn might work with others.

Particularly was it imperative to work with others as he had worked with me.

spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.

If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die.

It was fortunate, for my old business associates remained skeptical for a year and a half, during which I found little work.

This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.

Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish.

None of us makes a sole vocation of this work, nor do we think its effectiveness would be increased if we did.

A few are fortunate enough to be so situated that they can give nearly all their time to the work.

As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work.

His family was re-assembled, and he began to work as a salesman for the business he had lost through drinking.

This is his story: “I came to work on Tuesday morning.

Finally, he can no longer work, his wife gets a divorce and he is held up to ridicule.

I had no trouble refusing drinks, and began to wonder if I had not been making too hard work of a simple matter.

I’m sure it would work if I could only believe as he believes.

Show any longshoreman a Sunday supplement describing a proposal to explore the moon by means of a rocket and he will say, “I bet they do it—maybe not so long either.’’ Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does not work for something new which does?

Our ideas did not work.

It didn’t work.

Being all powerful, He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him and performed His work well.

We think of their needs and work for them.

Is our work solid so far?

They will always materialize if we work for them.

It works, if we have the proper attitude and work at it.

Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn’t work.

P ractical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics.

But he will be curious to learn why his own convictions have not worked and why yours seem to work so well.

We find it a waste of time to keep chasing a man who cannot or will not work with you.

He often says that if he had continued to work on them, he might have deprived many others, who have since recovered, of their chance.

The minute we put our work on a service plane, the alcoholic commences to rely upon our assistance rather than upon God.

If their old relationship is to be resumed it must be on a better basis, since the former did not work.

But if you are shaky, you had better work with another alcoholic instead!

Now we try to put spiritual principles to work in every department of our lives.

We do not like the thought that the contents of a book or the work of another alcoholic has accomplished in a few weeks that for which we struggled for years.

The fact is that he should work with other people to maintain his own sobriety.

We find it a real mistake to dampen his enthusiasm for alcoholic work.

Father knows he is to blame; it may take him many seasons of hard work to be restored financially, but he shouldn’t be reproached.

That is where our fellow travelers are, and that is where our work must be done.

Because of the employee’s special ability, or of his own strong personal attachment to him, the employer has sometimes kept such a man at work long beyond a reasonable period.

he not work hard and have a knack of getting things done?

As our work spreads and our numbers increase, we hope your employees may be put in personal contact with some of us.

They work hard and they play hard.

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

This work is necessary to maintain his sobriety.

He will work like the devil and thank you to his dying day.

Work better.

This couple has since become so fascinated that they have dedicated their home to the work.

We are greatly indebted to the doctor in attendance there, for he, although it might prejudice his own work, has told us of his belief in ours.

Understanding our work, he can do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.