From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... 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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