"honest" in the Big Book

That was the last honest manual labor on my part for many a day.

If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.

It will not take long for you to decide, if you are honest with yourself about it.

We have shared his honest doubt and prejudice.

Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.

There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.

If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and will have learned our lesson.

Unwilling to be honest with these sympathetic men, we were honest with no one else.

We must be entirely honest with somebody if we

Some people cannot be seen—we send them an honest letter.

We do not mean that you have to agree with your husband whenever there is an honest difference of opinion.

This is not to say that all alcoholics are honest and upright when not drinking.

For he knows he must be honest if he would live at all.