From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... minister, and
close friends.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
He also wanted to tell others who had tried to help him -- his doctor, his minister, and close friends.
2.
... minister, or
rabbi.
BB p.87,
Into Action
3.
... minister, or
rabbi, who gives his all ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
He may bring new hope and new courage to many a priest, minister, or rabbi, who gives his all to
minister to our troubled
world.
4.
... minister's son.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
5.
... minister to
our troubled world.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
He may bring new hope and new courage to many a priest, minister, or rabbi, who gives his all to
minister to our troubled
world.
6.
... minister who
sighs over the sins of ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest
of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all
and is locked up.
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