From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... resolve.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Yet if A.A.'s experience means anything at all, this is not only unwise, but is actually a
perilous resolve.
2.
... resolve?
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Where had been my high resolve?
3.
... resolve a
crisis.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
4.
... resolve his
alcoholic dilemma but had failed.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
This physician had repeatedly tried spiritual means to resolve his alcoholic dilemma but had failed.
5.
... resolve, I
tried again.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
6.
... resolve: "Out
he goes!"
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
A great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the meeting, sweeping every member to a single resolve: "Out he goes!"
7.
... resolve that
when I was free from ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This had the effect of making me resolve that when I
was free from parental domination, I would never
again darken the doors of a church.
8.
... resolve their
differences.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
With one arm around the shoulder of religion and the other around the shoulder of medicine, we'd resolve their
differences.
9.
... resolve with
God's help to carry these ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Here we need only recognize that we did act or
think badly, try to visualize how we might
have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
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