John

believer. girl dad. author.

[John @johnsowers]

My book - Say All The Unspoken Things - comes out this week! It’s a book of letters to my daughters and I’d love for you to have a copy. Order here > https://t.co/ZaF3NftZ6m

[✒️ @Literariium]

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.”

— G. K. Chesterton

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[John @johnsowers]

Amazing to see it in the theater again. Thank you PJ, Warner Bros, New Line and all those who made this happen. #TwoTowers

[John @johnsowers]

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. — C.S. Lewis

[John @johnsowers]

@JeshuaTLauka Yes! Great book. It’s definitely Tolkien’s “tragedy” - so it can be really sad.

[jacque boatman @jacqueboatman]

“Now New Year draws near and the night passes, day comes driving the dark, as ordained by God…”

- J.R.R. Tolkien, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

[John @johnsowers]

Our greatest gift was not wrapped. Our greatest gift was born. Merry Christmas.

[John @johnsowers]

Starting the holiday week with some of my favorites

[John @johnsowers]

On September 10th- same day Charlie Kirk was killed - the U.S. Senate voted to not release the Epstein Files. The world has a right to know who is on the list and the names of Epstein’s criminal accomplices.

[John @johnsowers]

Light unshared is darkness. To be light indeed, it must shine out. It is of the very essence of light, that it is for others.

— George MacDonald

[John @johnsowers]

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point …. purity, honesty or mercy, which yields to danger will be pure, honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

— C.S. Lewis

[John @johnsowers]

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

— C.S. Lewis

[John @johnsowers]

To try to be brave is to be brave.

— George MacDonald

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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Do not be afraid.

— Frederick Buechner

[John @johnsowers]

To try to be brave is to be brave.

— George MacDonald

[John @johnsowers]

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

— George MacDonald

[John @johnsowers]

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

— C.S. Lewis

[John @johnsowers]

Listening to Silmarillion - read by @andyserkis

[Goodreads @goodreads]

It's Friday! What are you reading this weekend?

[John @johnsowers]

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