Life Quotes: Hill; Elliott; Fields; Davis; Harmon; West; Hufstedler; Bingham; Smith; Southworth; Ballard; Bryant;

Listening to friends can be a good thing or a bad thing. Now if you have trusted friends that have proven themselves over the years, you have nothing to worry about. Keep asking your questions and keep taking their advice. However, if you’re longest friendship is 6 months or at best a year, then I would suggest you temper all advice from those friends with degrees of great caution and reserve. Real advice comes from a trusted source that has passed the test of time by providing insight and wisdom that is categorized as “what you need to hear” and not what you “want to hear.” Finding these types of resources are never easy and they only develop over long hauls of continual friendship and relationship.
I recently ran across one of my journals of notes where I have written down quotes and statements by friends over the years. Some are new and some are old, nevertheless, I still find them valuable and wanted to share them. These are the random selections of quotes, statements and notes from my friends as trusted sources:
“To save money do three things in construction. 1) Come in under budget on your projects at completion 2) Make sure you complete your projects on time 3) Price them right to start with” – Steven Hill
“Two biggest walls in my life. The one between me and everyone, and the one between me and God”-Scott Bryant
“Sometimes we hold on to something that is good to only lose something that was better”-Greg Bullard, Pastor
“If mules get to go to Heaven, I’m going to ask mine to forgive me-old plugs!”-Rev. William Boyd Bingham Jr. , my great uncle.
“It is never easy, but I will not lie”-Azaiah Southworth
“Deep breath please, answering “why” will probably offer no solace at this time. Maybe a time for redirection and focus is at hand. Also, time to grieve dreams and ideas and people that may have passed on from your life whether your choice or not. They have still passed and need to be grieved. Some people would say, “I don’t want to waste any energy on them.” The energy is not being spent, it is being invested o n yourself! Here’s to a new life and some fond memories, bottoms up!”-David Holt
“I am always glad to listen and hang out”-Trevor Barton, Hawk Creek Baptist Church
“You’re eager; be patient, don’t take the first thing that comes along, sometimes the best thing is at the end”-Shirley Hufstedler, high school civics teacher.
“Watch out for non-moving trains”-Patrick Harmon
“We would still be walking, thank God for the Rangers”-Jordan Davis
“When you swing up the barn door, birds sing and rats run”-Matthew West
“Justification is Jesus telling the guilty they are not guilty”-Steven Smith, FBC-Barbourville
“It might be a mess, but it sure is a big beautiful mess to God, because he knows exactly where we need to be”-Judson Fields
“Live, Love Burn, Die”-Seth Eric Elliott
Advice is something we all seek in life. Steven Smith’s words came from a testimony he was sharing in church during a revival meeting. I found it interesting to here him use the words justification, the guilty and not guilty, especially with his professional background. It was a much more powerful statement about Jesus Christ because he knew what he was talking about and the application was great.
If you are interested in quotes, I would recommend the Book of Proverbs as a great place to being to find your collection of thoughts. It is amazing once one has memorized God’s words, how we use those thoughts and ideas as our own in conversations and advice we give to others. It’s all a good thing, thanks to The Word.

Until then