From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... hands.
BB p.114,
To Wives
2.
... hands.
BB p.120,
To Wives
3.
... hands had
stretched out in welcome.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
4.
... hands in
discouragement, for I saw that ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
I wanted to throw up my hands in discouragement, for I saw that I had failed to help my banker friend understand.
5.
... hands in
doubt and said, "We don't ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not
to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, "We don't know."
6.
... hands or
he would soon start drinking ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
He saw that he had to place
the outcome in God's hands or he would soon start drinking again, and all would be lost anyhow.
7.
... hands out.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
8.
... hands, the
dark past is the greatest ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Cling to the thought that,
in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you
have -- the key to life and happiness for others.
9.
... hands --
there are doors of opportunity ahead ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
I suspect that if it is wisely handled -- and it seems to be in wise and prudent hands -- there are doors of opportunity ahead of this project that
may surpass our capacities to imagine."
10.
... hands, this
seldom takes long nor is ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
11.
... hands us
a great big lump that ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps life, as it
has a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest.
12.
... hands were
better than anything we could ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
When we look back, we realize that the things
which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned.
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