From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... loving and
All Powerful Creator.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
2.
... loving and
powerful hand of God.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
3.
... loving and
understanding companionship among women who ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what
had happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
4.
... loving God
as He may express Himself ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
"For our group purpose
there is but one ultimate
authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
5.
... loving God
as He may express Himself ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
These practical folk then
read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience.
6.
... loving God
as He may express Himself ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Two (Long)
Two -- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
7.
... loving God
as He may express Himself ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Two -- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
8.
... loving God
as He may express Himself ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
2. For our group purpose
there is but one ultimate
authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
9.
... loving God
in their lives -- these things ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled,
to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in
full citizenship, and
above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance
of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
10.
... loving His
sway might be.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I could go for such conceptions as Creative Intelligence, Universal Mind or Spirit of Nature but I resisted the thought of a
Czar of the Heavens,
however loving His sway might
be.
11.
... loving kindness
is to let by-gones be ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
It may be that both will decide that the way of good sense and loving kindness is to let by-gones be by-gones.
12.
... loving of
a few, can ignore the ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
The idea that we can be possessively loving of a
few, can ignore the many, and can continue to fear or hate anybody, has to be abandoned, if only a little at a time.
13.
... loving toward
all?
BB p.86,
Into Action
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