From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ENABLE occurs
7 times
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1.
... enable the group to function.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
Such are the
simple services that
enable the
group to
function.
2.
... enable the sufferer to become happily and ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
3.
... enable us to clear a channel choked ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often
enable us to
clear a
channel choked up with
anger,
fear,
frustration, or
misunderstanding, and
permit us to
return to the
surest help of all -- our
search for
God's will, not our
own, in the
moment of
stress.
4.
... enable us to do it.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
There was an
insistent yearning to
enjoy life as we once did and a
heartbreaking obsession that some new
miracle of
control would
enable us to do it.
5.
... enable us to find the grace by ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that
degree of
humility could
enable us to
find the
grace by which such a
deadly obsession could be
banished, then there
must
be
hope of the same
result
respecting any other
problem we could
possibly
have.
6.
... enable us to match calamity with serenity.
BB p.68,
How It Works
Just to the
extent that we do as we
think He would have us, and
humbly rely on Him, does He
enable us to
match calamity with
serenity.
7.
... enable you to find a Power greater ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Its main object is to
enable you to find
a
Power greater than
yourself which will
solve
your
problem.
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