Bel L.H.

“We are accustomed to thinking of Ernest Hemingway as a boozy, undisciplined genius who got through a quart of whiskey a day for the last twenty years of his life but nevertheless had the muse upon him. He was indeed an alcoholic driven by complex passions.2 But when it came to writing, he was the quintessence of discipline! His early writing was characterized by obsessive literary perfectionism as he labored to develop his economy of style, spending hours polishing a sentence, or searching for the mot juste—the right word. It is a well-known fact that he rewrote the conclusion to his novel A Farewell to Arms seventeen times in an effort to get it right. This is characteristic of great writers. Dylan Thomas made over two hundred handwritten(!) manuscript versions of his poem “Fern Hill.”3 Even toward the end, when Hemingway was reaping the ravages of his lifestyle, while writing at his Finca Vigia in Cuba he daily stood before an improvised desk in oversized loafers on yellow tiles from 6:30 A.M. until noon every day, carefully marking his production for the day on a chart. His average was only two pages — five hundred words.4 It was discipline, Ernest Hemingway’s massive literary discipline, which transformed the way his fellow Americans, and people throughout the English-speaking world, expressed themselves.”
― R. Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man

“Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, “At this moment God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God.”
― R. Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man

“How could you not know that I think of you from the moment I open my eyes to the moment I close them to dream of you? Since I’ve met you, every beat of my heart is for you, my Alice. Won’t you take the chance to fall in love with me? Let me court you. Allow me the chance to gain your trust and your heart.”
― Grace Hitchcock, Hearts of Gold Collection

“He will always provide for His children, but it may not be in the manner we wish.”
― Grace Hitchcock, Hearts of Gold Collection