From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... expel members,
but the banished have come ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us;
you can't keep us out."
2.
... expel offenders?
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders?
3.
... expel our
destructive obsessions until we are ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are willing to try this.
4.
... expel the
obsession.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
The fact was we really
hadn't cleaned house so
that the grace of God could enter us and expel the obsession.
5.
... expel the
obsession to drink and enable ...
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.
6.
... expel their
obsession.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
As they are humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession.
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