Each fragment says to the others, "We are right and you are wrong."

If the Creator gave us our lives in the first place, then He must know in every detail where we have since gone wrong.

Or we may just procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not yet, when in reality we have already passed up many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

As we glance down the debit side of the day's ledger, we should carefully examine our motives in each thought or act that appears to be wrong.

There are cases where our ancient enemy, rationalization, has stepped in and has justified conduct which was really wrong.

But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong.

Every group had the right to be wrong.

Thus it was that under Tradition Four an A.A. group had exercised its right to be wrong.

But from what you've told me about yourself and your problems and how you propose to lick them, I think I know what's wrong.'

I expressed my entire willingness to approach these individuals, admitting my wrong.

But later, alone in his room, he asked himself this question: "Is it possible that all the religious people I have known are wrong?"

The first thing apparent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong.

But our man is sure to be impressed with a sincere desire to set right the wrong.

Even when he wanted to assert himself he could not, for his drinking placed him constantly in the wrong.

Of course our friend was wrong -- dead wrong.

If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also.

Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means.

Of course our friend was wrong -- dead wrong.

He thus used his own wrong-doing as a means of destroying the reputation of another.

In that state, the wrong-doing of others, fancied or real, had power to actually kill.

Like our professional friends, we, too, are aware that there are wrong forms of dependence.

He felt that he had done a wrong he could not possibly make right.

To escape looking at the wrongs we have done another, we resentfully focus on the wrong he has done us.

Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong, he might make a rough survey of his conduct with respect to his primary instincts for sex, security, and society.

"Lord, make me a channel of thy peace -- that where there is hatred, I may bring love -- that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness -- that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -- that where there is error, I may bring truth -- that where there is doubt, I may bring faith -- that where there is despair, I may bring hope -- that where there are shadows, I may bring light -- that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

He has a positive genius for getting tight at exactly the wrong moment, particularly when some important decision must be made or engagement kept.

Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.

"Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Dad may feel that for years his drinking has placed him on the wrong side of every argument, but that now he has become a superior person with God on his side.

The group was right and I was wrong; the voice on the subway was not the voice of God.

If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.

She sees she was wrong to make a burning issue out of such a matter when his more serious ailments were being rapidly cured.

The men who cry for money and shelter before conquering alcohol, are on the wrong track.

The usual outcome was that people continued to wrong us and we stayed sore.

To conclude that others were wrong was as far as most of us ever got.

By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.

There was nothing wrong whatever with becoming a lay therapist.

It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.

But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and any real ability to cope with life.

We can go far beyond those things which were superficially wrong with us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which sometimes were responsible for the whole pattern of our lives.