From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... mysterious and
remote, something like Einstein's theory ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Maybe this all sounds mysterious and remote, something like Einstein's theory of relativity or a proposition in nuclear
physics.
2.
... mysterious barrier
we could neither surmount nor ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
3.
... mysterious skill
of clergymen, from which we ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat
mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
4.
... mysterious way
His wonders to perform."
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
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."
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