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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PERSISTENT occurs
4 times
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1.
... persistent advocates.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
2.
... persistent effort
to do this, there can ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Without a
willing and
persistent effort to do this,
there can be
little sobriety or
contentment for us.
3.
... persistent trial.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Then it is
explained that other
Steps of the
A.A. program can be
practiced
with
success only when
Step
Three is
given a
determined and
persistent
trial.
4.
... persistent use
of meditation and prayer, we ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The
persistent use of
meditation and
prayer, we
found, did
open the
channel so that where there had been a
trickle, there now was a
river which
led to
sure power and
safe guidance from
God as we were
increasingly better
able to
understand Him.
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and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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