Quotes - Step Three

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

Chapter 2

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Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affir-
mative action, for it is only by action that we can cut away
the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God—
or, if you like, a Higher Power—into our lives. Faith, to
be sure, is necessary, but faith alone can avail nothing. We
can have faith, yet keep God out of our lives. Therefore
our problem now becomes just how and by what specific
means shall we be able to let Him in? Step Three represents
our first attempt to do this. In fact, the effectiveness of the
whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly
we have tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and

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our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."