From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... error.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
2.
... error, I
may bring truth -- that where ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
"Lord, make me a channel of thy peace -- that where there is hatred, I may bring love -- that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness --
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -- that where
there is error, I may bring
truth -- that where there is doubt, I may bring faith -- that where there is despair, I may bring hope -- that where there are shadows, I may bring light -- that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
3.
... error in
selecting the most workable tenets ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
4.
... error of
our old ways, for these ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We need not be discouraged when we fall
into the error of our old ways, for these disciplines are not easy.
5.
... error which,
under the grace of God, ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
These very deviations created a vast process of trial and error which, under the grace of God, has brought us to where we stand
today.
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