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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... question.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
2.
... question.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
In
A.A. we have
found that the
actual good results of
prayer are
beyond question.
3.
... question.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
So,
practicing these
Steps, we had a
spiritual
awakening about which finally there was no
question.
4.
... question.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
So at the
outset, how
best
to
live and
work together as
groups became the
prime question.
5.
... question.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
6.
... question.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
7.
... question.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
We
needed to
ask ourselves
but one
short question.
8.
... question.
BB p.68,
How It Works
But above all, we
tried to be
sensible on this
question.
9.
... question.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
We
never argue this
question.
10.
... question arose
of just how this campaign ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
In one of their
trade associations, the
question arose of just how this
campaign should be
handled.
11.
... question, but
practically speaking, it isn't.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
This
sounds like a
hard
question, but
practically speaking,
it isn't.
12.
... question, but
when and how to give.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
It is not the
matter of
giving that is in
question, but
when and how to
give.
13.
... question can
arise in other departments of ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Many a
razor-
edged question can
arise in other
departments of
life where
this same
principle is
involved.
14.
... question "Does
A.A. have a real leadership?"
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
This brings us
straight to the
question "Does
A.A. have a
real leadership?"
15.
... question "How
anonymous should an A.A. member ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Squarely before us was the
question "How
anonymous should
an
A.A. member be?"
16.
... question, how
differently we behave.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
17.
... question, if
he will.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Let him
ask you that
question,
if he will.
18.
... question in
an embattled world.
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
Nor has our
Fellowship ever
publicly taken sides on any
question in an
embattled world.
19.
... question indeed.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
"That,"
agrees the
sponsor, "is a very
good question indeed.
20.
... question is
how to stop altogether.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
For those who are
unable to
drink moderately the
question is how to
stop altogether.
21.
... question: "Is
it possible that all the ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
But
later, alone in his
room,
he
asked himself this
question: "Is it
possible that
all the
religious people I have
known are
wrong?"
22.
... question is
often asked: "Why can't we ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Of
course, it is
reasonable and
understandable that the
question is often
asked: "Why can't
we take a
specific and
troubling dilemma straight to
God, and in
prayer secure from Him
sure and
definite answers to our
requests?"
23.
... question of
alcoholism.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Maybe you have
disturbed him about the
question of
alcoholism.
24.
... question of
faith.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Arrived at this
point, we
were
squarely confronted with the
question of
faith.
25.
... question of
how to approach the man ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
The
question of how to
approach the
man we
hated will
arise.
26.
... question of
taking care of the lonely ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some were
club-
minded, but
it was just a
question of
taking care of the
lonely heart.
27.
... question of
whether God can -- and will, ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
Of
course, the often
disputed question of whether
God can -- and will, under
certain conditions --
remove defects of
character will be
answered with a
prompt affirmative by almost any
A.A. member.
28.
... question raised
in Tradition One.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
Comes now the same
question
raised in
Tradition
One.
29.
... question that.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
We of
A.A. do not
question that.
30.
... question, they
tell why living was so ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Leaving aside the
drink question, they tell why
living was so
unsatisfactory.
31.
... question was
-- and sometimes still is -- are ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
The
question was -- and sometimes still is -- are
such
activities to be
branded as
professionalism under
A.A. tradition?
32.
... question was:
Should A.A. take the gift?
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The
question was: Should
A.A.
take the
gift?
33.
... question: 'What
are you getting out of ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
"His
next question: 'What are
you
getting out of it?'
34.
... question will
be "Are we ready?"
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
The only
question will be "Are we
ready?"
35.
... question will
be this: How, by ignorance, ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
So our
question will be this: How, by
ignorance,
compulsion,
and
self-will, do we
misuse
this
gift for our
own destruction?
36.
... question with
a loud "No!"
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
We may
certainly answer
this
question with a
loud
"No!"
37.
... question yet.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Now
comes the
biggest
question yet.
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