From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CONVICTION occurs
9 times
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1.
... 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
He
thinks himself
lost to
the
comfort of any
conviction at all.
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
6.
... conviction of
the Presence of God.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
In a few
seconds he was
overwhelmed by a
conviction of the
Presence of
God.
7.
... conviction that
human will is of no ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
8.
... conviction that
I could do the job ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
This
process snuffed out
the
last flicker of
conviction that I could do the
job
myself.
9.
... conviction that
in no circumstances could we ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
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