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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WORKS occurs
18 times
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1.
... works?
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Can
A.A. experience tell
all these they may still find a
faith that
works?
2.
... works.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
When we
began to do that, we
received the
gift of
faith, a
faith which
works.
3.
... works.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
Another
crowd of
A.A.'s says:
"We were
plumb disgusted
with
religion and all
its
works.
4.
... works."
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
It
reads: "This is the way to a
faith that
works."
5.
... works.
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
They
dubiously ask an
experienced A.A. member if this really
works.
6.
... works.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
Maybe these
places would make
large sums of
money to
carry on our other
good works.
7.
... works.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
A new
life has been
given us
or, if you
prefer, "a
design for
living" that
really
works.
8.
... works" began
to carry bright promise and ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
But now the
words "Of myself I am
nothing, the
Father doeth the
works"
began to
carry bright promise and
meaning.
9.
... works, if
we have the proper attitude ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
It
works, if we have the
proper attitude and
work at it.
10.
... works in
daily living is still out ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Without a
searching and
fearless moral inventory, most of us have
found that the
faith which
really
works in
daily living is still out of
reach.
11.
... works in
rough going.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
It is a
design for
living
that
works in
rough going.
12.
... works is
dead."
BB p.76,
Into Action
Now we
need more
action,
without which we find that "
Faith without
works is
dead."
13.
... works is
dead."
BB p.88,
Into Action
"
Faith without
works is
dead."
14.
... works --
it really does.
BB p.88,
Into Action
It works -- it really does.
15.
... works out
in his own way.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
Aided by such
instruction and
example
as we can find, it is
essentially an
individual adventure,
something which each one of us
works out in his
own way.
16.
... works was
dead, he said.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
Faith without
works was
dead, he said.
17.
... works we
have been able to build ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
By
faith and by
works we have
been able to
build upon the
lessons of an
incredible
experience.
18.
... works when
other activities fail.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
It
works when other
activities fail.
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