Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!

                                                    Alcoholics Anonymous,  page 100

 


THE DOCTOR'S OPINION page xxv
What with our ultra-modern standards, our scientific approach to everything, we are perhaps not well equipped to apply the powers of good that lie outside our synthetic knowledge.
THE DOCTOR'S OPINION page xxv
They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.
THE DOCTOR'S OPINION page xxvi
In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a power greater than themselves, if they are to re-create their lives.
THE DOCTOR'S OPINION page xxvii
One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change.
THE DOCTOR'S OPINION page xxix
...will power"
Chapter 1. BILL'S STORY page 10
I had always believed in a Power greater than myself.
Chapter 1. BILL'S STORY page 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.
Chapter 1. BILL'S STORY page 11
Had this power originated in him?
Chapter 1. BILL'S STORY page 11
There had been no more power in him than there was in me at that minute; and this was none at all.
Chapter 1. BILL'S STORY page 12
It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself.
Chapter 1. BILL'S STORY page 13
Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility
Chapter 1. BILL'S STORY page 16
We are growing in numbers and power.
Chapter 2. THERE IS A SOLUTION page 17
The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.
Chapter 2. THERE IS A SOLUTION page 20
His will power must be weak.
Chapter 2. THERE IS A SOLUTION page 22
As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work.
Chapter 2. THERE IS A SOLUTION page 22
What has become of the common sense and will power that he still sometimes displays with respect to other matters?
Chapter 2. THERE IS A SOLUTION page 23
In a vague way their families and friends sense that these drinkers are abnormal, but everybody hopefully awaits the day when the sufferer will rouse himself from his lethargy and assert his power of will.
Chapter 2. THERE IS A SOLUTION page 24
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.
Chapter 2. THERE IS A SOLUTION page 24
The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink.
Chapter 2. THERE IS A SOLUTION page 24
Our so called will power becomes practically nonexistent.
Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 49
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.
Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 50
 In our personal stories you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which is greater than himself.

Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 50
Every one of them has gained access to, and believe in, a Power greater than himself.

Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 50
This Power has in each case accomplished the miraculous, the humanly impossible.

Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 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.
Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 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.
Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 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.
Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 51
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.
Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 52
    When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God.
Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 53
It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our sense, and to draw conclusions.
Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 55
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 55
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS page 56
He stood in the Presence of Infinite Power and Love.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 59
powerful!

Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 59
But there is One who has all power that One is God.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 59
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 59
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 59
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him , praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 60
(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 62
Neither could we reduce our self-centeredness much by wishing or trying on our own power.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 63
Being all powerful, He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him and performed His work well.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 63
As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 63
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 66
In that state, the wrong-doing of others, fancied or real, had power to actually kill.
Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 69
We remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed.
Chapter 6. INTO ACTION page 85
We can exercise our will power along this line all we wish.
Chapter 6. INTO ACTION page 85
    Much has already been said about receiving strength, inspiration, and direction from Him who has all knowledge and power.
Chapter 7. WORKING WITH OTHERS page 92
Show him, from your own experience, how the queer mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of the will power.
Chapter 7. WORKING WITH OTHERS page 93
The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles .
Chapter 7. WORKING WITH OTHERS page 100
Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!
Chapter 8. TO WIVES page 107
What had become of their judgment, their common sense, their will power?
Chapter 8. TO WIVES page 112
Show him you have confidence in his power to stop or moderate.
Chapter 8. TO WIVES page 113
Yet often such men had spectacular and powerful recoveries.
Chapter 8. TO WIVES page 114
The power of God goes deep!
Chapter 8. TO WIVES page 118
If your husband is trying to live on a spiritual basis, he will also be doing everything in his power to avoid disagreement or contention.
Chapter 8. TO WIVES page 118
At such moments we forget that alcoholism is an illness over which we could not possibly have had any power.
Chapter 9. THE FAMILY AFTERWARD page 130
This dream world has been replaced by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by a growing consciousness of the power of God in our lives.
Chapter 9. THE FAMILY AFTERWARD page 130
We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.
Chapter 9. THE FAMILY AFTERWARD page 132
We have recovered, and have been given the power to help others.
Chapter 9. THE FAMILY AFTERWARD page 133
We are convinced that a spiritual mode of living is a most powerful health restorative.