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Alcoholics Anonymous
A.A. Oldtimers…On the Tenth Step A.A. Grapevine, August 1945 Vol. 2 No. 3 “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” THE admission of a
A.A. Oldtimers…On the Ninth Step A.A. Grapevine, July 1945, Vol. 2 No. 2 “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or
A.A. Oldtimers…On the Seventh Step A.A. Grapevine, May 1945, Vol. 1 No. 12 “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” We all know that it is God’s will that we
A.A. Oldtimers…On the Sixth Step A.A. Grapevine, April 1945, Vol. 1 No. 11 “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” This step is most important
A.A. Grapevine, February 1945. Vol. 1 No. 10 Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. This is a tough step and
A.A. Oldtimers…On the Fourth Step A.A. Grapevine, February 1945. Vol. 1 No. 9 “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” Since I cannot speak for anyone else, I’ll
A.A. Oldtimers…On the Third Step A.A. Grapevine, January 1945. Vol. 1 No. 8 “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as
“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
Having taken the First Step of the A.A. program by admitting that we were powerless over alcohol, we were confronted with Step Two: “We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
The first of the 12 steps in the creed or philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous is, “We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable.” By such an admission any alcoholic …
Editorial On the Twelfth Step
The Grapevine — October 1945
“Having had a spiritual experience as the result of those steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”