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... hand.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.124
2.
... hand.
BB
A Vision For You, pp.162-163
3.
... hand --
and strange as this may seem ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand
-- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of
ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only
effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
4.
... hand and
we became alcoholics.
12&12
Step Four, p.47
We thought "conditions"
drove us to drink, and when we
tried to correct these conditions and found that we
couldn't to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics.
5.
... hand, at
the same time avoiding certain ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.162
This practice enables us
to lend a hand, at the same time avoiding certain alluring distractions
of the road, about which any traveling man can inform you.(*)
6.
... hand brushed
the bureau near by, touching ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.145
7.
... hand, he
may be mean, egotistical, selfish ...
BB
How It Works, p.61
8.
... hand in
hand with the Spirit of ...
BB
Into Action, p.75
9.
... hand in
his domestic and business affairs?
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
10.
... hand of
God.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
11.
... hand of
God seemed heavy or even ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.105
He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the
hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and
that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
12.
... hand of
Providence early gave us a ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.145
So the hand of Providence
early gave us a sign that any alcoholic is a member of our
Society when he says so.
13.
... hand on
a hot stove.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
14.
... hand on
A.A. in this town.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.133
They say to one another, "Perhaps it would be
a good idea if we continue to keep a firm hand on A.A. in this town.
15.
... hand that
father has, at the outset, ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
16.
... hand them
currency for their back debts; ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.147
Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club; in
the second story they would
sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project -- quite noncontroversial, of course.
17.
... hand, they
took nothing, their self-pity made ...
BB
To Wives, p.105
18.
... hand trembled
so I could not hold ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
19.
... hand, we
have warped our minds into ...
12&12
Step One, p.21
It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking
that only an act of Providence can remove it
from us.
20.
... hand when
drinking.
BB
To Wives, p.109
21.
... hand with
the Spirit of the Universe.
BB
Into Action, p.75
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