From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... resources.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
2.
... resources alone.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening,
the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.
3.
... resources, and
gladly devoted their spare hours ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
They shared their homes,
their slender resources,
and gladly devoted their
spare hours to fellow-sufferers.
4.
... resources, as
marshalled by the will, were ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
5.
... resources, never
grows up.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
6.
... resources now
being harnessed promise such a ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
The immense resources now being harnessed promise such a quantity of material blessings that
many have come to believe that a man-made millennium lies just ahead.
7.
... resources of
courage were uncovered, and that ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when
the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered,
and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
8.
... resources of
radio, press, and films to ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
9.
... resources, they
found that a new power, ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
In the face of collapse
and despair, in the face of
the total failure of their
human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into
them.
10.
... resources to
meet these calamities which come ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Have we alcoholics in A.A.
got, or can we get, the resources to meet these calamities which come to so
many?
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