In making amends, it is seldom wise to approach an individual, who still smarts from our injustice to him, and announce that we have gone religious.
This might be called leading with the chin. Why lay ourselves open to being branded fanatics or religious bores?
If we do this, we may kill a future opportunity to carry a beneficial message. But the man who hears our amends is sure to be impressed with a sincere desire to set right a wrong.
He is going to be more interested in a demonstration of good will than in our talk of spiritual discoveries.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 77