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... honesty.
BB
How It Works, p.58
They are naturally incapable of grasping
and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty.
2.
... honesty.
BB
How It Works, p.65
3.
... honesty.
BB
To Employers, p.145
In fact, he may say almost anything if he has
accepted our solution
which, as you know, demands
rigorous honesty.
4.
... honesty about
ourselves are the great gains ...
12&12
Step Five, p.58
More realism and therefore more honesty about ourselves are the
great gains we make under the influence of Step Five.
5.
... honesty, and
genuine humility.
12&12
Step Five, p.59
Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we
set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
6.
... honesty and
humility to establish and maintain ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness,
honesty and humility to establish and maintain
the new order of things, were the essential
requirements.
7.
... honesty and
morality, we'd stand a better ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
With a proper display of
honesty and morality, we'd
stand a better chance of getting what we really wanted.
8.
... honesty and
open mindedness are the essentials ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
9.
... honesty and
tolerance, that we were beset ...
12&12
Step Five, p.58
All of us saw, for example,
that we lacked honesty and
tolerance, that we were beset at times by attacks of self-pity or delusions of personal grandeur.
10.
... honesty confide
these to God and another ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
We knew we would have to quit
the deadly business of
living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty confide these to God and another human being.
11.
... honesty; he
recalled the joys of Twelfth ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
He paid a fine tribute to the Fellowship; he told how his
family had been reunited; he extolled the
virtue of honesty; he recalled the joys of Twelfth Step work; and then he lowered the
boom.
12.
... honesty, in
the sense we find it ...
BB
Into Action, p.73
But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty,
in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.
13.
... honesty might
soon clean up politics.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.156
14.
... honesty that
we can summon, is to ...
12&12
Step Six, p.66
15.
... honesty to
try repeatedly Step Six on ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
He goes on to explain that
any person capable of enough willingness and honesty to
try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults -- without any reservations whatever -- has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be
called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and likeness of his own Creator.
16.
... honesty, tolerance,
and true love of man ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.
17.
... honesty, tolerance,
unselfishness, peace of mind, and ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
He finds himself in possession of a degree of
honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of
mind, and love of which he had
thought himself quite incapable.
18.
... honesty when
normal, will do incredible things.
BB
To Employers, p.140
When drinking, or getting over a bout, an alcoholic, sometimes the model of
honesty when normal, will do incredible things.
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