Word Analysis
"powerful" in the Big Book
12
occurrences in 12 passages
By Chapter
Ch. 2: There Is a Solution3
Ch. 3: More About Alcoholism1
Ch. 4: We Agnostics2
Ch. 5: How It Works2
Ch. 8: To Wives1
Ch. 9: The Family Afterward2
Ch. 11: A Vision for You1
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Chapter 2: There Is a Solution(3 passages)
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 17Read in PDF →
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 24Read in PDF →
What seemed at first a flimsy reed, has proved to be the loving and powerful hand of God.
Chapter 2: There Is a Solution · Page 28Read in PDF →
Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism(1 passage)
This case contains a powerful lesson.
Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism · Page 33Read in PDF →
Chapter 4: We Agnostics(2 passages)
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 49Read in PDF →
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 51Read in PDF →
Chapter 5: How It Works(2 passages)
fling, powerful!
Chapter 5: How It Works · Page 59Read in PDF →
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 63Read in PDF →
Chapter 8: To Wives(1 passage)
Yet often such men had spectacular and powerful recoveries.
Chapter 8: To Wives · Page 113Read in PDF →
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward(2 passages)
We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 130Read in PDF →
We are convinced that a spiritual mode of living is a most powerful health restorative.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 133Read in PDF →
Chapter 11: A Vision for You(1 passage)
They had visioned the Great Reality—their loving and All Powerful Creator.
Chapter 11: A Vision for You · Page 161Read in PDF →