12 Steps

Question 1

Step 1 & Principle

Answer 1

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. HONESTY

Question 2

Step 2 & Principle

Answer 2

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. HOPE

Question 3

Step 3 & Principle

Answer 3

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. FAITH

Question 4

Step 4 & Principle

Answer 4

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. COURAGE

Question 5

Step 5 & Principle

Answer 5

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. INTEGRITY

Question 6

Step 6 & Principle

Answer 6

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. WILLINGNESS

Question 7

Step 7 & Principle

Answer 7

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. HUMILITY

Question 8

Step 8 & Principle

Answer 8

Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. LOVE

Question 9

Step 9 & Principle

Answer 9

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. DISCIPLINE

Question 10

Step 10 & Principle

Answer 10

Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. PATIENCE/PERSEVERANCE

Question 11

Step 11 & Principle

Answer 11

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. AWARENESS

Question 12

Steo 12 & Principle

Answer 12

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. SERVICE