The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures, and have courage when things go wrong.
01918 – Real Things haven’t Changed
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01915 – Worth the Trying
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can be is worth the trying.
01806 – How Honest Can Our Children Be with Us?
We teach our children how honest they can be with us based on how we react when they tell us things we don't want to hear.
01686 – Help Change the Earth
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
01501 – Claiming Jesus is God
Many otherwise honest and intellectual people will construct a neat bypass around the claim of Jesus to be God. Being people of insight and imagination, they know perfectly well that once to accept such a claim as fact would mean a readjustment of their own purposes...
01491 – Leave the Results to God!
It is quite impossible for any of us to measure ourselves and estimate our progress. Our job, having found the path we honestly believe God wishes us to follow, is to go quietly on with it and leave the results to Him! from Letters (February 21,...
01424 – Jesus Always Went where the Pain Was
There is no side to take in the Twelve Step Program! It is not a worthiness contest. There is only an absolutely necessary starting point! The experience of "powerlessness" is where we all must begin. And Alcoholics Anonymous (A. A.) is honest and humble enough to...
01408 – More Faith in Honest Doubt than Creeds
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
01371 – Living Honestly with Our Dust
It is something we all have experience with--the dust of our lives. We miss the mark of God's best for us when we believe the illusion that our dustiness is only in part of us. Our lives are not...as shiny clean as we like to think they are. Our lives are not free of...
01320 – Saints vs. Sinners
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with...