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... impossible.
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
2.
... impossible.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
3.
... impossible.
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
4.
... impossible.
12&12
Step Two, p.25
5.
... impossible.
12&12
Step Three, p.35
6.
... impossible.
12&12
Step Six, p.66
7.
... impossible.
12&12
Step Six, p.68
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
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
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
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