"world" in the Big Book

I’d prove to the world I was important.

With ministers, and the world’s religions, I parted right there.

A new world came into view.

Back of them is a world of ignorance and misunderstanding.

He may be one of the finest fellows in the world.

He had a commendable World War record.

We looked upon this world of warring individuals, warring theological systems, and inexplicable calamity, with deep skepticism.

It is being constantly revealed, as mankind studies the material world, that outward appearances are not inward reality at all.

These tiny bodies are governed by precise laws, and these laws hold true throughout the material world.

When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn’t so.

This world of ours has made more material progress in the last century than in all the millenniums which went before.

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

Is he not a victim of the delusion that he can wrest satisfaction and happiness out of this world if he only manages well?

if the rest of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all and is locked up.

parent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong.

We began to see that the world and its people really dominated us.

We are in the world to play the role He assigns.

To the outer world he presents his stage character.

expect to live long or happily in this world.

We can look the world in the eye.

We have entered the world of the Spirit.

Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!

Now you are getting back into the social life of this world.

Perhaps your husband has been living in that strange world of alcoholism where everything is distorted and exaggerated.

This world is full of people like him.

It is the most natural thing in the world, once his liquor problem is solved, to feel that he will now measure up to that cherished vision.

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They should be thankful he is sober and able to be of this world once more.

If he means to right his past wrongs, why all this concern for everyone in the world but his family?

Those of us who have spent much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of it.

This dream world has been replaced by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by a growing consciousness of the power of God in our lives.

Drinking isolates most homes from the outside world.

He may bring new hope and new courage to many a priest, minister, or rabbi, who gives his all to minister to our troubled world.

We try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry the world’s troubles on our shoulders.

God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds.

A mong many employers nowadays, we think of one member who has spent much of his life in the world of big business.

Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand alcoholism as I do now.

Our hope is that when this chip of a book is launched on the world tide of alcoholism, defeated drinkers will seize upon it, to follow its suggestions.