From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... earnestly advise
every alcoholic to read this ...
BB xxxii(xxx),
The Doctor's Opinion
I earnestly advise every alcoholic to read this book through, and though perhaps he came to scoff, he may remain to pray.
2.
... earnestly asking
God's help and guidance -- meanwhile ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God's help and guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do the right
thing when it becomes clear, cost what it may?
3.
... earnestly did
we commence to quest for ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
As we had once struggled
and prayed for individual recovery, just so earnestly did we commence to quest for the principles through which
A.A. itself might survive.
4.
... earnestly pray
for the right ideal, for ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and
for the strength to do the right thing.
5.
... earnestly seek.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
To us, the Realm of Spirit
is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who
earnestly seek.
6.
... earnestly tried
many avenues of escape.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
He had a desperate desire to stop, but saw no way out, for he had earnestly tried many avenues of escape.
7.
... earnestly we
ask the press also, to ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
Very earnestly we ask the press also, to observe this request, for otherwise we
shall be greatly handicapped.
8.
... earnestly we
have tried to come to ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
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