| | The Religious Roots of The Twelve Steps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Members of the Groups assure me that in their own experience they have seen nothing of the sort, but I cannot help feeling that they have been singularly fortunate in that regard; for there is not lacking evidence that sometimes, at least, things have happened in this connection to cause grave concern. |
 | | The group had ostensibly clearly heard God's Will during their first "Quiet Time", and such Guidance was supposed to be nearly infallible, but when Frank Buchman came in and contradicted them, the whole group changed its opinion of "God's Will" in a minute. |
 | | The Oxford Group's aim ever since the last war has been to give a whole new pattern for statesmanship and a whole new level of responsible thinking -- faculties only given to men who are living under God's guidance, who are changed through daily contact with God and through daily obedience to God. |
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