From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... righteousness.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
2.
... righteousness can
underlie the smallest act or ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
3.
... righteousness or
grandiosity, our reaction will be ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
If, however, our natural disposition is inclined to self-righteousness or grandiosity,
our reaction will be just the opposite.
4.
... righteousness that
clung to so many 'believers' ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
We gloated over the hypocrisy, bigotry, and
crushing self-righteousness that clung to so many 'believers' even in their Sunday best.
5.
... righteousness, the
very thing that we had ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
Self-righteousness, the very thing that we had contemptuously condemned in others, was
our own besetting evil.
6.
... righteousness while
trying to enforce upon the ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium
of their own specification.
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.
Copyright © 2005-2012, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.