From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ASSURANCE occurs
7 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... assurance.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
My
talent for
leadership, I
imagined,
would place me at the
head of
vast enterprises which I
would
manage with the
utmost assurance.
2.
... assurance, for after all God gave us ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
Under these
conditions we can
employ our
mental faculties with
assurance,
for after all
God gave us
brains to use.
3.
... assurance of the believer, the agnostic, or ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
He cannot
attain in even a
small degree the
assurance of the
believer, the
agnostic, or the
atheist.
4.
... assurance that Alcoholics Anonymous -- A.A. as a ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Today, we are able to say with
assurance that
Alcoholics Anonymous --
A.A. as a
whole -- should
never be
organized at all.
5.
... assurance that God will restore us to ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
True humility and an
open mind can
lead us to
faith, and every
A.A. meeting is an
assurance that
God will
restore us to
sanity if we
rightly relate ourselves
to Him.
6.
... assurance that he is acting under God's ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
With the
best of
intentions, he
tends to
force his
own will into all
sorts of
situations and
problems with the
comfortable assurance that
he is
acting under
God's
specific direction.
7.
... assurance that his many troubles, now made ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
He
relies upon the
assurance
that his many
troubles, now made more
acute because he cannot use
alcohol to
kill the
pain, can be
solved, too.
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