From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CONFORM occurs
8 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... conform to
anything?
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Why did we
dare to say,
contrary to the
experience of
society
and
government everywhere, that we would neither
punish nor
deprive any
A.A. of
membership, that we
must never compel anyone to
pay anything,
believe anything, or
conform to anything?
2.
... conform to
group opinion.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
3.
... conform to
social usage!"
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
They won't
grow up and
conform
to
social usage!"
4.
... conform to
the principles of recovery.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
The
A.A. member has to
conform to the
principles of
recovery.
5.
... conform to
their principles and so, we ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
All of the
Twelve Steps require sustained and
personal exertion to
conform to their
principles and so, we
trust, to
God's will.
6.
... conform to
this pattern.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
It does not
conform to this
pattern.
7.
... conform to
whatever tested principles would guarantee ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
8.
... conform with
God's that we begin to ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
It is when we
try to make our will
conform with
God's that we
begin to use it
rightly.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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