From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WILLPOWER occurs
5 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... willpower.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Our
whole trouble had been
the
misuse of
willpower.
2.
... willpower, can
rightly control our inner lives ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
3.
... willpower could
break it.
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.
4.
... willpower; here
is one place you may ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
No one ought to say the
A.A. program requires no
willpower; here is one place you may
require all you've got.
5.
... willpower just
wouldn't work on alcohol.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
My
own willpower just wouldn't
work on
alcohol.
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