Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.
I think everybody has a little rule follower and a little rule breaker in them.
I am a rule follower. I think rules are there for a reason. I don't like breaking them.
Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .
I'm a rule follower. But there is also a part of me, clearly, that doesn't follow them.
I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.
Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I had violently returned. This people had no need of directives to affirm its French pride in the face of the whole world
If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.
But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.
In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.
When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.
But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?
The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
I was very much not a follower of labels in school. If anything, I was labeled 'uncool.'