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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
TEST occurs
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1.
... test.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
2.
... test.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
Years ago this
principle
of "no
endorsement" was
put to a
vital test.
3.
... test.
BB p.117,
To Wives
The
faith and
sincerity
of both you and your
husband will be
put to the
test.
4.
... test among
his patients and certain other ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
And with such
good effect
that the
doctor agreed to
a
test among his
patients
and
certain other
alcoholics from a
clinic
which he
attends.
5.
... test: can
we stay sober, keep in ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
6.
... test: how
well does it actually work?
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
This
brave philosophy,
wherein each
man plays God,
sounds good in the
speaking, but it still has to
meet the
acid test: how well does it
actually
work?
7.
... test my
thinking by the new God-consciousness ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I was to
test my
thinking
by the new
God-
consciousness within.
8.
... test of
uncertainty, pain, fear, and despair, ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
And this they did find, in
measure to
transcend all the
defects
of their
frail craft, every
test of
uncertainty,
pain,
fear, and
despair, and even the
death
of one.
9.
... test that
it faced was this: Could ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
10.
... test --
was it selfish or not?
BB p.69,
How It Works
We
subjected each
relation to this
test -- was
it
selfish or not?
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