From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... conviction and
as willing to listen as ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded to conviction and as willing to listen as the dying can be.
2.
... conviction at
all.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
3.
... conviction came
that God does "move in ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when
the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered,
and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
4.
... conviction follows
that tomorrow's challenges can be ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
When our inventory is carefully taken, and we
have made peace with ourselves, the conviction follows that tomorrow's challenges can be met as
they come.
5.
... conviction grew
that A.A.'s had to hang ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
But out of this frightening and at first
disrupting experience the conviction
grew that A.A.'s had to hang together or die separately.
6.
... conviction of
the Presence of God.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
7.
... conviction that
human will is of no ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
This statement may surprise newcomers who
have experienced nothing but constant deflation and a growing
conviction that human will is of no value whatever.
8.
... conviction that
I could do the job ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
9.
... conviction that
in no circumstances could we ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
These adventures implanted a deep-rooted conviction that in no circumstances could we
endorse any related enterprise, no matter how good.
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