From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... enable the
group to function.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
2.
... enable the
sufferer to become happily and ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual
in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and
enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.
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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