Sentences with phrase «of getting sober»

As written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (The Chronicles of Narnia, You Kill Me is a surprisingly resonant examination of getting sober, made amusing by the assassin's increasing honesty about his career.

«I knew that I had a lot of life ahead of me but one of the main reasons of getting sober was so that I could be around my little sister because my mom and dad [said I couldn't be around her] if I was doing stuff.»

Sure, people can say you violate your anonymity, or our traditions about publicity, etc. but I also know there may be some who need to hear your message where it will give them the courage to try this (hard, as you said) way of getting sober.

Not exact matches

Of course, you don't need to go to a sober rave to reap these benefits — all you have to do is get moving first thing in the morning.

Starting a business is hard, and if you did a really sober - minded assessment of the risks and likely outcomes, you'd probably never get started in the first place.

Speaking of tipping back a few while dining out, it's best to be 100 percent sure you're sober enough to drive before you get behind the wheel.

It's sobering to get rejected by JPM Chase because I never failed in multiple attempts before with Bank of America, Citibank, and Washington Mutual (when they were still around).

An alcoholic in AA uses the power of the groups experience, strength, and hope in getting sober and staying sober.

If there were some kind of organization for atheists to get sober (and there may be) then I would not presume to walk in there and inform them how they were wrong and should start believing in a God ASAP.

Several years removed from getting a master's degree in playwriting from Yale, I had been in and out of detoxes and rehabs, ERs, sobering - up stations and flophouses.

Our book is meant t be suggestive only LOL God luck I have feeling AA will weather the hate as it has the last 75 + years and continue to reach out to those so desperately in need of sobriety for free LOL If you read this and want to get sober please try AA if it doesn't work for you find something that does.

I realize it's only because of unmerrited favor (i.e. grace), that I got sober, but it's difficult for me to select which of the steps keep me sober, so I need to put all twelve, as explained in the big book, into my life.

I wrote about two of the most well known approaches to getting and saying sober here.

I'd like to point out that the writer is not unique, and as member of AA for over 20 years, I have known people to get sober in AA from every religion, denomination as well as other atheists, agnostics or non-believers.

There is good evidence that at least some of the corps have remarkable success in getting and keeping their clients sober.

It would seem to be preferable to say that: while the crowd clamors and shouts and triumphs and celebrates; while one individual after another hastens to the place of tumult, where it is good to be if one is in search of oblivion and indulgence from that which is eternal; while at the same time the crowd shouts mockingly at God, «Yes, now see whether you can get hold of us»; yet since it is difficult in the rush of the crowd to distinguish the individual, difficult to see the single tree when one is looking at the wood, the sober countenance of eternity quietly waits.

«When it isn't just poor kids who couldn't get health insurance who are over there,» Hedges told the group of sober - faced teenagers on bean - bag chairs, «but when it's kids like you, kids from Wellesley High School, who are dying, I can guarantee there will be outrage and demands for the war to end,» After that, they asked him no more questions.

Regardless of what you believe or do not believe, I've got only one question for you — are you sober today?

Understanding that the world around us is constantly getting older as we do is sobering in so many ways God meant it to be, reminding us daily of our humanity and our need for Him and the life that He provides.

I personally do not believe in God, but I got sober with the help of AA.

I was sober for three years and when I started getting in my own head again, started getting real dark, I had Sherri pray and Declan was in Europe, and he got this convent full of nuns to pray for me, and whatever happened, I had a turnaround, like a 180.

We are looking for a sober and responsible position which squares with as full an understanding as we can get of what the history of the Christian people reveals.

One of the many new gods appearing in revisionist literature is that the «higher power is simply that which gets you sober.

Pioneer Clarence H. Snyder (who got sober in February of 1938, was sponsored by Dr. Bob, and later became the AA with the most sobriety) spoke often of God as Creator and Jesus Christ as God's Son.

Many people who are atheist or agnostic have gotten sober and stayed sober by replacing the bottle they worshiped with a philosophy (AA is a philosophy, by the by, a way of looking at Life and Being), with the wisdom of the group or even of humanity in general, with whatever works for them.

I'm glad the author was able to get past the «higher power» part of the 12 - step program and gather the information needed to stay sober.

Thacher also told Wilson he could get sober too if he set aside his objections to religion and form a personal conception of God, «another power» or «higher power.»

Many will tell you that you will get drunk if you don't find god, but the truth is I have seen people stay sober by having large displacements of old ideas with new ones.

Liberals find a way to push their anti-God agenda however they can, but connecting alcoholism and getting sober is a bit of a stretch.

I figured a) these people were funny, kind, and not plastered; b) they believed that some kind of higher power had helped them get sober; c) they knew something I did not.

Pentecost was the day they got their answer: with great joy, and with wind and fire and Spirit, making them look like a bunch of happy drunks in the midst of a numbingly sober and sour world.

One minister tells of the hours and hours he spent trying to get and keep an alcoholic parishioner sober.

As one seasoned worker with alcoholics observed, «If an alcoholic with whom I've been working gets sober, I try to remember that it may be that it occurred in spite of what I did.»

For all of the atheists in AA this is good place to get sober.

I got sober 27 years ago with the help of AA, and I too, am an atheist.

Very few REAL Alcoholics can get sober and stay sober without the (Cult) of Alcoholics anonymous.

There are apparently plenty of people who want support in getting and staying sober, but are turned off by the cultish AA program.

Long ago, when I realized I was going to have to come to some kind of grips with this idea of a Higher Power if I was going to have much hope of getting and staying sober (my way really hadn't worked very well), I did.

«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

In fact after people get clean and sober, they can be a member of The Wolf Pack and begin to influence others at those meetings for Christ's sake.

It isn't even about God... what this writer who «sobered up» without God doesn't get is that in AA (which incidentally she, by virtue of writing her article is in direct conflict with one of the Twelve Traditions of AA) it clearly says «as we understood Him» — your Higher Power can be your dog, as long as you realize you aren't running the show... lest we forget that our best «thinking» got us there...

After the achievement of independence when the Episcopal Church of its own volition got an Episcopate, and in spite of the pompous pretensions and sober protestations of such High - churchmen as Connecticut's Samuel Seabury, the new American church in order to attain organization on a national scale had to make the lay voice in its councils an essential part of its being.

Rather, it is a perceptive review of the history that got us here and a sober analysis of where we are headed if we persist on our present course of «sacrificing American sovereignty and social justice to the gods of the global economy.»

A small fraction of alcoholics of this severity do get clean and sober, but the vast majority go on to die of their disease.

Whilst we get emotionally attached to some of these players and try and convince ourselves they are good enough to stay it is often sobering to see where these outgoing players go — often «decent» clubs but fair to say a level or so down from where we probably are.

I am seriously tired of him repeating himself everytime when he gets beat, I think it's a big big yawn for any sober Arsenal fan.And it seems Wenger is getting consistent in the wrong area from my point of view too!

But at the same time, Brian's sobering story makes clear that millions of American children live in food insecure homes, school meals are often their only dependable source of food, yet for a variety of reasons (parental neglect, stigma, etc.) they may not be getting all the food that's being made available to them at school.

One sobering quote I just couldn't get out of my head was from Dr. Mariana Chilton, Ph.D., an associate professor of public health at Drexel University and director of Witnesses to Hunger, who said: This recession will be permanently inscribed in the bodies and the brains of children growing up today.

Members, journalists, advisers and lobbyists get to socialise and remind each other they're real people outside the Westminster grind of serious, sober meetings.

McBride is no fool, and when sober is clever and well read, but from his youth, drink and a desire to inflict physical pain and damage on anyone considered an opponent — other sportsmen, fellow drinkers down the pub, journalists, civil servants, politicians — got the better of him.