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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... powerful.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Knowledge was all-
powerful.
2.
... powerful!
BB p.59,
How It Works
3.
... powerful cement which binds us.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
The
feeling of having
shared in a
common peril is one
element in the
powerful cement which
binds us.
4.
... Powerful Creator.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
They had
visioned the
Great Reality -- their
loving and All
Powerful Creator.
5.
... powerful desire to stop drinking is of ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
At a
certain point in the
drinking of every
alcoholic, he
passes into
a
state where the most
powerful desire to
stop drinking is of
absolutely no
avail.
6.
... Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the
perfectly logical assumption is
suggested that
underneath the
material
world and
life as we see it,
there is an All
Powerful,
Guiding,
Creative Intelligence,
right
there our
perverse streak comes to the
surface and we
laboriously set out to
convince ourselves it isn't so.
7.
... powerful hand of God.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
What
seemed at
first a
flimsy reed, has
proved to be the
loving and
powerful hand of
God.
8.
... powerful, He provided what we needed, if ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Being all
powerful, He
provided what we
needed, if
we
kept close to Him and
performed His
work well.
9.
... powerful health restorative.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
10.
... powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Here their
powerful instinct to
live can
cooperate fully with their
Creator's
desire to
give them new
life.
11.
... powerful lesson.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
This
case contains a
powerful lesson.
12.
... powerful reason why one should have faith.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
When many
hundreds of people are able to say that
the
consciousness of the
Presence of
God is
today the most
important fact of their
lives, they
present a
powerful reason why one should have
faith.
13.
... powerful recoveries.
BB p.113,
To Wives
Yet often such
men had
spectacular and
powerful
recoveries.
14.
... powerful spiritual experience and a life of ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
15.
... powerful that no amount of human willpower ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
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