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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... proved; and the atheist claims proof of ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Religion says the
existence of
God can be
proved; the
agnostic says it
can't be
proved; and the
atheist claims proof of the
nonexistence of
God.
2.
Proved beyond doubt by an immense experience, ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Proved beyond doubt by an
immense experience, this is one of the
facts of
A.A. life.
3.
... proved bitterly disappointing, they have concluded there ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Since both
ways have
proved bitterly disappointing, they have
concluded there is no place whatever for them to
go.
4.
... proved man could never fly?
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Was it not
true that the
best
mathematical minds
had
proved man could
never fly?
5.
... proved that his was a desperate case, ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
He soon
proved that his was a
desperate case, and that
above all he
wanted to get well.
6.
... proved that man could never fly?
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
What about people who
proved that
man could
never fly?
7.
... proved; the agnostic says it can't be ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Religion says the
existence of
God can be
proved; the
agnostic says it
can't be
proved; and the
atheist claims proof of the
nonexistence of
God.
8.
... "proved" there was no God whatever.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
Many of us had
strong logic, too, which "
proved" there
was no
God whatever.
9.
... proved to be.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
But the
moment I made up my
mind to go through with the
process, I had the
curious
feeling that my
alcoholic condition was
relieved, as in
fact it
proved to be.
10.
... proved to be a devil-may-care young fellow ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He
proved to be a
devil-may-
care young fellow whose
parents could not make out whether he
wanted to
stop drinking or not.
11.
... proved to be able and exceedingly anxious ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
12.
... proved to be far more visionary than ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
Like so much of
A.A.'s
basic text, those
words have
proved to be far more
visionary
than the
founding members could ever have
imagined.
13.
... proved to be the loving and powerful ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
What
seemed at
first a
flimsy reed, has
proved to be the
loving and
powerful hand of
God.
14.
... proved to them that the virtually impossible ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
15.
... proved willingness to make these sacrifices that ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
It is
A.A.'s
proved willingness to make these
sacrifices that
gives
people their
high confidence in our
future.
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