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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... remove all
these defects of character."
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
"Were
entirely ready to
have
God remove all these
defects of
character."
2.
... remove all
these defects of character.
BB p.59,
How It Works
6. Were
entirely ready to
have
God remove all these
defects of
character.
3.
... remove all
these defects of character" -- is ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
So
Step Six -- "Were
entirely ready to have
God remove all these
defects of
character" --
is
A.A.'s way of
stating the
best possible attitude one can take in
order to make a
beginning
on this
lifetime job.
4.
... remove defects
of character will be answered ...
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.
5.
... remove from
me every single defect of ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
I
pray that you now
remove
from me every
single defect of
character which
stands in the way of my
usefulness to you and my
fellows.
6.
... remove from
us all the things which ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
Are we now
ready to let
God
remove from us all the things which we have
admitted are
objectionable?
7.
... remove it
from us.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
It is
truly awful to
admit that,
glass in
hand, we have
warped our
minds into such an
obsession for
destructive drinking
that only an
act of
Providence can
remove it
from us.
8.
... remove our
fear and direct our attention ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
We
ask Him to
remove our
fear and
direct our
attention to what He would have us be.
9.
... remove our
obsession.
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
10.
... remove our
shortcomings."
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
"
Humbly asked Him to
remove our
shortcomings."
11.
... remove our
shortcomings."
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
It
marked the
time when we
could
commence to see the
full implication of
Step Seven: "
Humbly asked Him to
remove our
shortcomings."
12.
... remove our
shortcomings.
BB p.59,
How It Works
7.
Humbly asked Him to
remove our
shortcomings.
13.
... remove our
shortcomings such as He could ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
Then, in
Step Seven, we
humbly asked God to
remove our
shortcomings such as He could or would under the
conditions of the
day we
asked.
14.
... remove the
A.A. name from clubs and ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
15.
... remove the
mania for alcohol from their ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
So in a very
complete and
literal way, all
A.A.'s have "
become entirely ready" to have
God remove the
mania for
alcohol from their
lives.
16.
... remove them.
BB p.84,
Into Action
When these
crop up, we
ask God at once to
remove them.
17.
... remove whatever
self-will has blocked you off ...
BB p.71,
How It Works
We
hope you are
convinced
now that
God can
remove
whatever
self-will has
blocked you off from Him.
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and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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