Come Armageddon by Anne Perry is a Christian fantasy novel; a mix between The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and The Legends of the Guardian-King series by Karen Hancock (which if you haven’t read either, go to the library right now). The book was fairly good, but it was the afterword that shook my world, and continues to unto this day. Anne Perry writes out a dialog between Jesus and Satan, and the following quote immediately was and remains to this day one of my favorite quotes of all time. And this quote is by Jesus, not Satan, but hopefully that’s pretty apparent.
“To be perfect is to do your best, without shadow of deceit or cowardice, without self-justification or dissembling. It is to strive with an honest mind and a pure heart, and an eye single to the love of good. It is not to climb without falling, but each time you fall, to rise again and continue the journey, no matter how hard it may be, discounting the bruises and the pain, the grief and the hope deferred. It is to face the light with courage, and never to deny it. It requires all that a man has, to the height and breadth and depth of his soul, but it does not require more.”
Words to live by, my friends.
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