Golden Rule
ISBE on the Intertexts to the Golden Rule
The general principle of reciprocity embodied in the “golden rule” is not unique to Jesus’ teaching. Among the Greeks, Isocrates stated a similar principle: “You should be such in your dealings with others as you expect me to be in my dealings with you” (Nicocles or The Cyprians 49). Similar maxims are found
... See moreLOVING YOURSELF The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:14
Martin Luther • Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional
‘reverse golden rule’ – that is, not treating yourself in punishing and poisonous ways in which you’d never dream of treating someone else.
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
I may repeat ‘Do as you would be done by’ till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God: and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him.
C. S. Lewis • Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics)
To love others does not mean simply to feel gushing emotions welling up in your heart; rather, and more important, it means to give to them—to serve them. God wants you to love other people. You do so through