From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... persistently did
this we gradually found that ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
2.
... persistently tries
all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
3.
... persistently tries
to correct what is wrong.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently
tries to correct what is
wrong.
4.
... persistently we
claim the right to decide ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
How persistently we claim the
right to decide all by ourselves just what we shall think and just how we shall act.
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