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IMPOSSIBLE occurs
22 times
[12 in BB ... 10 in 12&12]
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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
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
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
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
12.
... impossible domestic
situations righted; feuds and bitterness ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
13.
... impossible for
any of us to fully ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
14.
... impossible for
him to stop.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
15.
... impossible had
now become possible.
12&12
Foreword, p.17
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
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
21.
... impossible to
persuade an alcoholic to discuss ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
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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