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1.
... power.(*)
BB
Bill's Story, p.16
We are
growing in
numbers
and
power.(*)
2.
... power.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
Young people may be
encouraged by this
man's
experience to
think that
they can
stop, as he did, on their
own will power.
3.
... power.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
As we
look back, we
feel we had
gone on
drinking many years beyond the
point where we could
quit on our
will power.
4.
... Power.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
His
defense must come from a
Higher Power.
5.
... Power?
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
But where and how were we to
find this
Power?
6.
... power.
BB
How It Works, p.62
7.
... power.
BB
Into Action, p.85
8.
... power.
BB
Working With Others, p.92
9.
... power?
BB
To Wives, p.107
What had
become of their
judgment, their
common sense, their
will power?
10.
... power.
BB
To Wives, p.118
At
such moments we
forget that
alcoholism is
an
illness over which we
could not
possibly have had
any power.
11.
... Power.
12&12
Contents (Step Two), p.5
12.
... Power.
12&12
Contents (Step Three), p.5
13.
... Power.
12&12
Contents (Step Eleven), p.8
14.
... power.'
12&12
Step Two, p.27
You can, if you
wish,
make A.A. itself your '
higher power.'
15.
... Power.
12&12
Step Three, p.38
So it is by
circumstance rather than by
any virtue that we have been
driven
to
A.A., have
admitted defeat, have
acquired the
rudiments of
faith, and
now want to
make a
decision to
turn our
will and our
lives over to a
Higher Power.
16.
... Power?
12&12
Step Three, p.39
So how,
exactly, can the
willing person continue to
turn his
will and his
life over to the
Higher Power?
17.
... power.
12&12
Step Four, p.44
We have
drunk for
vainglory -- that we might the
more enjoy foolish dreams of
pomp and
power.
18.
... power.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
For the
time being, we who were
atheist or
agnostic discovered that our
own group, or
A.A. as a
whole, would
suffice as a
higher power.
19.
... power along
this line all we wish.
BB
Into Action, p.85
We can
exercise our
will
power along this
line all we
wish.
20.
... power, ambition,
and leadership.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
21.
... power and
absorb himself in his work ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
22.
... power and
direction, provided we took other ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
23.
... power and
guts, he will make the ...
BB
To Employers, p.138
If he has your
will power and
guts, he
will make the
grade."
24.
... power and
keeping on guard.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
I
felt I had
every right to be
self-
confident, that it would be only a
matter of
exercising my
will power and
keeping on
guard.
25.
... power and
light to its interior.
12&12
Step Three, p.36
26.
... Power and
Love.
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
He
stood in the
Presence of
Infinite Power and
Love.
27.
... Power, and
most of them began to ...
12&12
Step Two, p.28
28.
... power and
prestige?
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
Would there be
strivings for
power and
prestige?
29.
... power, and
prestige was tearing humanity apart ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.130
30.
... power and
safe guidance from God as ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
The
persistent use of
meditation and
prayer, we
found, did
open the
channel so that where there had been a
trickle, there
now was a
river which
led to
sure power and
safe guidance from
God as we were
increasingly
better able to
understand Him.
31.
... power and
self-knowledge would not help in ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.42
32.
... power and
simplicity.
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
33.
... Power, and
to do certain simple things, ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
They
flatly declare that
since they have
come to
believe in a
Power greater than
themselves,
to
take a
certain attitude toward that
Power, and to do
certain simple things, there has been a
revolutionary change
in their
way of
living and
thinking.
34.
... Power and
you will presently live in ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
35.
... power, beauty,
and love of which these ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
36.
... power becomes
practically nonexistent.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
37.
... Power beyond
ourselves was somewhat weak, even ...
BB
We Agnostics, pp.45-46
38.
... power by
which we could live, and ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
We had to
find a
power by which
we could
live, and it had to be a
Power greater than
ourselves.
39.
... Power can
remove our obsession.
12&12
Step Two, p.25
40.
... power, claims
for the power of prayer ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
41.
... power considerably
above average; we forgot the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.121
42.
... power could
have relieved our alcoholism.
BB
How It Works, p.60
(b) That
probably no human power could have
relieved our
alcoholism.
43.
... power-driven argument.
12&12
Step Ten, p.91
44.
... power-driver are
personality extremes, types with which ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
45.
... power driver,
this one, and brash as ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
A
power driver, this
one, and
brash as
any salesman could
possibly be.
46.
... power flow
in, as we enjoyed peace ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
47.
Power flows
just where it is needed.
12&12
Step Three, p.36
Power flows just where it is
needed.
48.
... power, for
romance, and for family satisfactions ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
49.
... Power, God
as I understood Him, to ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
50.
... Power greater
than himself.
BB
We Agnostics, p.48
The
reader may
still ask why he should
believe in a
Power greater than
himself.
51.
... Power greater
than himself.
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
Every one of them has
gained access to, and
believes in, a
Power greater than
himself.
52.
... Power greater
than himself and that he ...
BB
Working With Others, p.93
The
main thing is that he be
willing to
believe in a
Power greater than
himself and that he
live by
spiritual principles.
53.
... Power greater
than myself.
BB
Bill's Story, p.10
54.
... Power greater
than myself.
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
It was only a
matter of
being
willing to
believe in a
Power greater than
myself.
55.
... Power greater
than myself?"
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
"Do I
now believe, or am I
even willing to
believe, that there is a
Power
greater than
myself?"
56.
... Power greater
than myself, but I certainly ...
12&12
Step Two, p.27
I can't
say upon what
occasion or
upon what
day I
came to
believe in a
Power greater than
myself, but I
certainly have that
belief
now.
57.
... Power greater
than ourselves.
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
We had to
find a
power by which
we could
live, and it had to be a
Power greater than
ourselves.
58.
... Power greater
than ourselves.
12&12
Step Five, p.60
59.
... Power greater
than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
60.
... Power greater
than ourselves could restore us ...
BB
How It Works, p.59
2.
Came to
believe that a
Power greater than
ourselves could
restore us
to
sanity.
61.
... Power greater
than ourselves could restore us ...
12&12
Contents (Step Two), p.5
62.
... Power greater
than ourselves could restore us ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
"
Came to
believe that a
Power greater than
ourselves could
restore us
to
sanity."
63.
... Power greater
than ourselves could restore us ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
64.
... Power greater
than ourselves is the essence ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
65.
... Power greater
than ourselves, we commenced to ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
66.
... Power greater
than themselves.
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, pp.567-568
67.
... power greater
than themselves, if they are ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
In
nearly all
cases, their
ideals must be
grounded in a
power greater than
themselves,
if they are to
re-
create their
lives.
68.
... Power greater
than themselves, to take a ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
They
flatly declare that
since they have
come to
believe in a
Power greater than
themselves,
to
take a
certain attitude toward that
Power, and to do
certain simple things, there has been a
revolutionary change
in their
way of
living and
thinking.
69.
... power greater
than you, who have not ...
12&12
Step Two, p.27
In this
respect they are
certainly a
power greater than you, who have not
even come close to a
solution.
70.
... Power greater
than yourself which will solve ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
71.
... Power had
restored us to sanity and ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
72.
... Power has
in each case accomplished the ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
73.
... Power hasn't
produced any baleful results.
12&12
Step Three, p.38
74.
... power he
might muster could stop his ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
When our
friend related his
experience, the
man agreed that
no amount of
will power he might
muster could
stop his
drinking for
long.
75.
... Power impossible.
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
76.
... power in
him than there was in ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
There had been
no more power in him than there was in me at that
minute; and this was
none at all.
77.
... power in
human lives, are facts as ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
78.
... power in
the church from which he ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
He has
helped other men recover, and is a
power in the
church from which he
was
long absent.
79.
... Power --
into our lives.
12&12
Step Three, p.34
Like all the
remaining Steps,
Step Three calls for
affirmative action, for it
is only by
action that we can
cut away the
self-
will which has
always blocked the
entry of
God -- or, if you
like, a
Higher Power -- into our
lives.
80.
... power is
needed to produce the essential ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
81.
... power known
to man, religion and that ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
82.
... Power, let
alone meditation and prayer?
12&12
Step One, p.24
83.
... power-mad, who
devote themselves to attempting to ...
12&12
Step Four, p.43
84.
... power much
greater than yourself.
BB
A Vision For You, p.163
85.
... power must
be weak."
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
"His
will power must be
weak."
86.
... Power must
necessarily do so if we ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
In
Step Two we
saw that since we could not
restore ourselves to
sanity, some
Higher Power must necessarily do so if we were to
survive.
87.
... power of
choice in drink.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
The
fact is that most
alcoholics, for
reasons yet obscure, have
lost the
power of
choice in
drink.
88.
... power of
God.
BB
We Agnostics, p.52
89.
... power of
God goes deep!
BB
To Wives, p.114
The
power of
God goes deep!
90.
... power of
God in human affairs was ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
Judging from what I had
seen
in
Europe and since, the
power
of
God in
human affairs was
negligible,
the
Brotherhood of
Man a
grim jest.
91.
... power of
God in our lives.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
92.
... power of
God, plus enough willingness, honesty ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
93.
... Power of
God within its walls.
BB
A Vision For You, p.162
Many of us have
felt, for the
first time, the
Presence and
Power of
God within its walls.
94.
... power of
most A.A.'s is relatively high, ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
95.
... power of
our instincts to overreach themselves.
12&12
Step Six, p.66
96.
... power of
prayer may, despite all the ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
97.
... power of
will.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
98.
... power or
glory.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
99.
... power originated
in him?
BB
Bill's Story, p.11
Had this
power originated
in him?
100.
... power, peace,
happiness, and sense of direction ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
In the
face of
collapse and
despair, in the
face of the
total failure of their
human resources, they
found that a
new power,
peace,
happiness, and
sense of
direction flowed into them.
101.
... power that
he still sometimes displays with ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
102.
... power --
that One is God.
BB
How It Works, p.59
But there is
One who has all
power -- that
One is
God.
103.
... power; that
sufficient operating funds and reserve ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
104.
... power, that
was our dilemma.
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
Lack of
power, that was our
dilemma.
105.
... Power, the
more independent we actually are.
12&12
Step Three, p.36
106.
... Power, Thy
Love, and Thy Way of ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
107.
... power to
actually kill.
BB
How It Works, p.66
108.
... power to
avoid disagreement or contention.
BB
To Wives, p.118
109.
... power, to
become angry when our instinctive ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
110.
... power to
carry that out.
BB
How It Works, p.59
111.
... power to
carry that out."
12&12
Contents (Step Eleven), p.8
112.
... power to
carry that out."
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
113.
... power to
carry that out."
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
And we
think that the
whole range of our
needs is
well defined by that
part of
Step Eleven which
says: "...
knowledge of His
will for us
and the
power to
carry that
out."
114.
... power to
choose whether he will drink ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
115.
Power to
direct or govern is the ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.172
116.
... power to
help others.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
We have
recovered, and have been
given the
power to
help others.
117.
... power to
reason, to examine the evidence ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.53
It is not by
chance we were
given the
power to
reason, to
examine the
evidence of our
senses, and
to
draw conclusions.
118.
... power" to
resist the impulse to drink.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
Following his
physical
rehabilitation, he had a
talk with me in which he
frankly
stated he
thought the
treatment a
waste of
effort,
unless I could
assure him, which
no one ever had, that in the
future he would have the "
will
power" to
resist the
impulse to
drink.
119.
... power to
stop or moderate.
BB
To Wives, p.112
Show him you have
confidence in his
power to
stop or
moderate.
120.
... Power was
a sort of bush-league pinch ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.75
121.
... Power was
out of the question.
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
122.
... Power was
worth knowing better, by as ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
123.
... power wasn't
there.
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
We could
wish to be
moral, we
could
wish to be
philosophically comforted, in
fact, we could
will these
things with all our
might, but the
needed power
wasn't there.
124.
... Power, which
is God.
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
125.
... Power which
is greater than himself.
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
126.
... power which
necessarily tempt other societies.
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.175
127.
... Power which
pulls chronic alcoholics back from ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
128.
... Power worked.
12&12
Step Three, p.38
129.
... power, would
presently love God and call ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
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