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... expel members,
but the banished have come ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
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
Tradition Nine, p.172
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
Step Five, p.57
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
Step Two, p.32
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
Foreword, p.15
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
Step Six, p.64
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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