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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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IMPOSSIBLE   occurs   22 times 12 in BB  •  10 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
impossibly
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1.
  ... impossible.  BB Bill's Story, p.11
Here was something at work in a human heart which had done the impossible.


2.
  ... impossible.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
Yet we found it impossible.


3.
  ... impossible.  BB We Agnostics, p.50
This Power has in each case accomplished the miraculous, the humanly impossible.


4.
  ... impossible.  12&12 Step Two, p.25
But now, still smarting from that admission, he is faced with something really impossible.


5.
  ... impossible.  12&12 Step Three, p.35
To every worldly and practical-minded beginner, this Step looks hard, even impossible.


6.
  ... impossible.  12&12 Step Six, p.66
To think of liking lust seems impossible.


7.
  ... impossible.  12&12 Step Six, p.68
Seen in this light, Step Six is still difficult, but not at all impossible.


8.
  ... impossible.  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.


9.
  ... impossible.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
And these were fears which would make a serene and useful existence, at any financial level, quite impossible.


10.
  ... impossible, and if we had passed into ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.


11.
  ... impossible, but to continue as he is ...  BB We Agnostics, p.44
To one who feels he is an atheist or agnostic such an experience seems impossible, but to continue as he is means disaster, especially if he is an alcoholic of the hopeless variety.


12.
  ... impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out.


13.
  ... impossible for any of us to fully ...  BB We Agnostics, p.46
We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.


14.
  ... impossible for him to stop.  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.


15.
  ... impossible had now become possible.  12&12 Foreword, p.17
This established identification with alcoholic readers and proved to them that the virtually impossible had now become possible.


16.
  ... impossible have always failed.  BB Working With Others, p.101
These attempts to do the impossible have always failed.


17.
  ... impossible job from which we recoil.  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
We will want to be rid of some of these defects, but in some instances this will appear to be an impossible job from which we recoil.


18.
  ... impossible list for Santa Claus.  12&12 Step Two, p.31
Sometimes it's because God has not delivered us the good things of life which we specified, as a greedy child makes an impossible list for Santa Claus.


19.
  ... impossible situations, seeking neither to run nor ...  12&12 Step Two, p.31
We saw them calmly accept impossible situations, seeking neither to run nor to recriminate.


20.
  ... impossible to explain what we see, feel, ...  BB We Agnostics, p.48
Simply because it is impossible to explain what we see, feel, direct, and use, without a reasonable assumption as a starting point.


21.
  ... impossible to persuade an alcoholic to discuss ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
Highly competent psychiatrists who have dealt with us have found it sometimes impossible to persuade an alcoholic to discuss his situation without reserve.


22.
  ... impossible to say we had no capacity ...  BB We Agnostics, p.54
It was impossible to say we had no capacity for faith, or love, or worship.


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