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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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1.
... powerful.   12&12 p.29, Step Two
Knowledge was all-powerful.


2.
... powerful!   BB p.59, How It Works   Go to page 58 in the Big Book
Remember that we deal with alcohol -- cunning, baffling, powerful!


3.
... powerful cement which binds us.   BB p.17, There Is A Solution   Go to page 17 in the Big Book
The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.


4.
... Powerful Creator.   BB p.161, A Vision For You   Go to page 161 in the Big Book
They had visioned the Great Reality -- their loving and All Powerful Creator.


5.
... powerful desire to stop drinking is of ...   BB p.24, There Is A Solution   Go to page 24 in the Big Book
At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.


6.
... Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our ...   BB p.49, We Agnostics   Go to page 49 in the Big Book
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.


7.
... powerful hand of God.   BB p.28, There Is A Solution   Go to page 28 in the Big Book
What seemed at first a flimsy reed, has proved to be the loving and powerful hand of God.


8.
... powerful, He provided what we needed, if ...   BB p.63, How It Works   Go to page 63 in the Big Book
Being all powerful, He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him and performed His work well.


9.
... powerful health restorative.   BB p.133, The Family Afterward   Go to page 133 in the Big Book
We are convinced that a spiritual mode of living is a most powerful health restorative.

10.
... powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully ...   12&12 p.64, Step Six
Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their Creator's desire to give them new life.


11.
... powerful lesson.   BB p.33, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 33 in the Big Book
This case contains a powerful lesson.


12.
... powerful reason why one should have faith.   BB p.51, We Agnostics   Go to page 51 in the Big Book
When many hundreds of people are able to say that the consciousness of the Presence of God is today the most important fact of their lives, they present a powerful reason why one should have faith.


13.
... powerful recoveries.   BB p.113, To Wives   Go to page 113 in the Big Book
Yet often such men had spectacular and powerful recoveries.


14.
... powerful spiritual experience and a life of ...   BB p.130, The Family Afterward   Go to page 130 in the Big Book
We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.

15.
... powerful that no amount of human willpower ...   12&12 p.22, Step One
Our sponsors declared that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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