From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... impossible.
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
2.
... impossible.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
3.
... impossible.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
4.
... impossible.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
5.
... impossible.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
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.
6.
... impossible.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
And these were fears which would make a serene and useful existence, at any financial level, quite impossible.
7.
... impossible.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
8.
... impossible.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
9.
... impossible.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
10.
... impossible, and
if we had passed into ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
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 p.44,
We Agnostics
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 p.15,
Bill's Story
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 p.46,
We Agnostics
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 p.22,
There Is A Solution
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 p.17,
Foreword
This established identification with alcoholic readers and proved to them that the virtually impossible had now become possible.
16.
... impossible have
always failed.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
17.
... impossible job
from which we recoil.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
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 p.31,
Step Two
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 p.31,
Step Two
20.
... impossible to
explain what we see, feel, ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
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 p.18,
There Is A Solution
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 p.54,
We Agnostics
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