From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... determined and
persistent trial.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Then it is explained that other Steps of the A.A. program can be practiced with success
only when Step Three is given a determined and persistent trial.
2.
... determined objective
and for the perfect objective ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
So the difference between "the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which
is of God.
3.
... determined that
your husband's drinking is not ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
Be determined that your husband's drinking is not
going to spoil your relations with your children or your friends.
4.
... determined to
depend completely upon a stronger ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
How frequently we see a
frightened human being determined to depend completely upon a stronger person for guidance and protection.
5.
... determined to
die.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
The patient had made his own diagnosis, and deciding his situation
hopeless, had hidden in
a deserted barn determined to die.
6.
... determined to
reform America's drinking habits.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Maybe the society could
have survived the abolition controversy, but it didn't have a chance from the moment it
determined to reform America's drinking habits.
7.
... determined to
set down its experience in ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
Nevertheless, the infant Society determined to set down its experience in a book which
finally reached the public in April 1939.
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