Sentences with phrase «golden rule if»

As a golden rule if you can not see things with your eye then it's not there.

I simply asked if the OP would abandon the golden rule if the threat of eternal punishment was gone.

The standard of the law of love (Golden Rule if you prefer) is a very high standard of ethical behavior.

Not exact matches

The golden rule of building a happy culture with an «at your service» attitude from day one is simple: If this wasn't your company, would you want to work here?

Articles If there's a golden rule for long - term investing, it's that betting on disaster is always overpriced, and betting on «it'll all work itself out» is always a bargain.

Dan, if that were the general understanding of the Golden Rule, I would be far more likely to agree with you; however, even the author of this article defines the Golden Rule with a similar «flawed» logic.

However, as far as the golden rule is concerned... If I was plotting the destruction of thousands of people, I would want someone to stop me.

If the Golden Rule had been practiced, then the West would have been overrun by Vikings, Huns, Mongols, Muslims, or etc long, long ago.

you would rightly be upset if they gave you the same treatment (ironically considering the origin of this was the Golden Rule).

It would be nice if it turned out that it was another God who actually believed in the concept behind the Golden Rule and judged everyone based on performance rather than whether or not they believed in something he refused to prove.

If you want to follow the golden rule, then follow it.

If you want the golden rule to provide a moral framework, then for you it does.

Oh but even if it were true, it's not where I'd want to be when the likes of awanderingscot; kevinite; Theo; Rainer; Austin, etc will be there... it Is their hell and they have all broken the Golden Rule.

I don't claim to speak for hypocrites, of which there are many, but the «golden rule» means warning people of sin, as we would wish that others would warn us also, if we were living in sin.

Still, if the amended rule is imperfect, it is nevertheless more workable than the golden rule — first, because it acknowledges that people are different, and second, because it provides explicitly for taking the other person's point of view into account.

«Rather than rational self interest being the basis upon which your micro-economical decisions were made, start to say, «What if the golden rule was the basis for our microeconomic decisions?

If men are told the Golden Rule, they listen and give assent and do nothing.

As if Christ's version of the Golden Rule wasn't high enough, He now raises the bar even further.

Last time I read the good book I'm sure it condemned murder and violence, and it was Jesus that described that golden rule to treat others the way you would want them to treat you... I wouldn't enjoy being starved and beaten... If these people were actual followers of Jesus they would have followed his example.

If the Golden Rule actually was the cornerstone of the Christian religion, then so many Christian HYPOCRITES wouldn't be CHOOSING negative verses on gays rather than CHOOSING the MORE IMPORTANT Golden Rule.

The corner stone of ALL religions is also the ONLY religious principle that I was taught in the «business ethics» class I took in college... Put simply, if everyone did their very best to follow the «the golden rule» (i.e. due unto others as you would have them do unto you) in everything they do, WE WOULD HAVE A BETTER SOCIETY TODAY EVEN WITHOUT ORGANIZED RELIGION OF ANY KIND.

All of these world views and the syncretistic Christian combination of them had long been peppered with pithy slogans, golden rules, words of wisdom, etc., which range from Socrates» Know thyself to Christ's If you lose the world, you gain it and on to Nothing in excess and Treat every human as an end in itself.

I'm an atheist when it comes to Christianity, but that doesn't mean I don't understand the golden rule or other ideas presented by Jesus as a human philosopher, but even if I agreed with Jesus on a number of philosophical issues, in no way would I be a Christian.

If one really wants to live by the Golden Rule they will inform someone when they are sinning against God.

If you want a good example of «divine truth in the writings of other religions», punch «Golden Rule» into wikipedia.

«The golden rule» should be the only rule any person needs to follow if you ask me.

If everyone lived simply by the Golden Rule we would all live in harmony with each other.

The golden Rule says, «Don't do it unto others, if you don't want others to do unto you».

The Golden Rule does not say, «Don't do it unto others, if you don't want others to do unto you.»

If you don't agree with it, just ignor it like, say, the Golden Rule.

Imagine how our workplaces would be transformed if every follower of Christ began operating with the Golden Rule as their mission statement.

If I may presume, however, to speculate about the ground of his teaching, I would suggest that the key to the matter is the application of the Golden Rule of fairness to the question of supporting such laws.

Live your life by the Golden Rule, live every day as if it was your last, but don't expect it to be.

He wouldn't mind if someone hit the bong at one of his parties, and he believes marijuana has medicinal purposes (just ask Woody Harrelson), so he's upholding the Golden Rule and being moral by doing it, right?

As with adulterers, of which I am one if only in thought (Jesus never differentiated between thought and action), liars, thieves, gossips etc. the Golden Rule is not negated.

But, he's decided to focus on how the F1 car of the future could've turned out if the sport had kept with the rules and regulations from the «golden age» of the 80s and 90s.

George Foreman, the heavyweight poet, has a golden opportunity in the Olympics if, as Coach Pappy Gault warns, he obeys the rules

why take any chances with the golden goose and if its true that FFP rules are about to be relaxed it means the cornerstone of the boards argument around a stable long term business plan is now in shreds.

«Having the operation once increases the odds that it will be performed again, and if she became pregnant and needed another Caesarean, Golden Rule did not want to pay for it.»

This is commonly referred to as The Golden Rule and most Westerners will know what you mean if you merely utter three simple words Do Unto Others.

My version of the golden rule: If someone says that something bad happened to them, and you don't know what to say, try, «I'm sorry to hear that.»

«If we all followed the golden rule, we'd be much more moral,» he said.

«From the attachment parenting perspective, positive discipline embodies the «golden rule» of parenting: In other words, treat children the way you would want to be treated if you were the child.

The Natural Child offers a consistent and compelling approach to raising a loving, trusting, and confident child, without resort to coercion or manipulation, simply by following the Parenting Golden Rule: «Treat your child as you would like to be treated if you were in the same position.»

The golden rule is that if the exercise was performed before pregnancy, it is safe to continue during pregnancy at a more moderate pace for as long as the body will allow.

I think so much of the time we turn to doctors and take their advice and the research as a golden rule, but in the end if no one is happy or sleeping, then is it really worth it?

From the attachment parenting perspective, positive discipline embodies the «golden rule» of parenting; in other words, treat children the way you would want to be treated if you were the child.

We'll discuss some secrets for effective email advocacy below, but for now keep in mind Two Golden Rules of email organizing: if you're contacting Congress or another representative body, you generally should only let people contact their own legislators through your system (rather than spamming all of Congress).

Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former director of communications, has been attributed with the «golden rule» for managing a media frenzy — if the story grows legs and runs, and is still in the headlines days later, the original subject is toast.

David Grossman from Newsnight asks if Cameron believes debt should be below 40 % of GDP - Brown's «golden rule».