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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BELIEVED occurs
10 times
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1.
... believed.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
At
long last I saw, I
felt, I
believed.
2.
... believed as
I do.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
It's no
doubt a
fact that
A.A. is
full of people who once
believed as I do.
3.
... believed, for
the liquor trade to show ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
It would be a
good thing, they
believed, for the
liquor trade to
show a
sense of
public responsibility.
4.
... believed he
had acquired such a profound ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
5.
... believed in
a Power greater than myself.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I had always
believed in a
Power greater than myself.
6.
... believed in
life -- of course we did.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
But we
believed in
life -- of
course we did.
7.
... believed that
for him there was no ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
He
frankly admitted and
believed that for him there was no
hope.
8.
... believed that
God existed.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
This was
true even when we
believed that
God existed.
9.
... believed that
if we remained sober for ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Most of us have
believed that if we
remained sober for a
long stretch, we could
thereafter
drink normally.
10.
... believed them
when no one else could ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
We have believed them when no one else could or
would.
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