From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EVIDENCE occurs
9 times
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1.
... evidence, but
no perfect visual proof.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
2.
... evidence of
a God who knew or ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
But
certainly there wasn't any
evidence of a
God who
knew or
cared about
human beings.
3.
... evidence of
our complete willingness to move ...
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
4.
... evidence of
our senses, and to draw ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
It is not by
chance we were
given the
power to
reason, to
examine the
evidence of our
senses, and to
draw conclusions.
5.
... evidence of
the profound change that A.A. ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
This
principle is
telling evidence of the
profound change that
A.A. has
wrought in all of us.
6.
... evidence that
women regain their health as ...
BB p.104,
To Wives
There is every
evidence that
women regain their
health as
readily as
men if they
try our
suggestions.
7.
... evidence to
a government bureau.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
8.
... evidence to
the contrary that surrounds us ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
The
moment we
catch even a
glimpse of
God's will, the
moment we
begin to see
truth,
justice, and
love as the
real and
eternal things in
life, we are
no
longer deeply disturbed by all the
seeming evidence to the
contrary that
surrounds
us in
purely human affairs.
9.
... evidence to
the effect that an alcoholic ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
They
piled on me
heaps of
evidence to the
effect that
an
alcoholic mentality, such as I had
exhibited in
Washington, was a
hopeless condition.
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