From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CERTAINTY occurs
7 times
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1.
... certainty and
majesty of a great tide ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
It
poured over and through him with the
certainty and
majesty of a
great tide at
flood.
2.
... certainty, it
is nevertheless true that few ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Despite this
certainty, it
is nevertheless
true that few
subjects have been the
cause
of more
contention within our
Fellowship
than
professionalism.
3.
... certainty of
a great man, not too ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
To
Christ I
conceded the
certainty of a
great man, not too
closely followed by those who
claimed Him.
4.
... certainty that
I would have to be ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
Everyone became resigned to the
certainty
that I would have to be
shut up somewhere, or would
stumble along to a
miserable end.
5.
... certainty that
our Creator has entered into ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
The
central fact of our
lives today is the
absolute certainty that our
Creator has
entered into
our
hearts and
lives in a
way which is
indeed miraculous.
6.
... certainty that
we are no longer isolated ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone in
self-
constructed prisons,
the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
7.
... certainty that
we will be fired and ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
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