Amanda Wilkes

“It’s never been hard for me to fall in love, a quality that has yet to simplify one single day of my life.”
― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

“Contextualization is not — as is often argued — “giving people what they want to hear.”4 Rather, it is giving people the Bible’s answers, which they may not at all want to hear, to questions about life that people in their particular time and place are asking, in language and forms they can comprehend, and through appeals and arguments with force they can feel, even if they reject them.”
― Timothy Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone's nice surprise.”
― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

“The evidence of my life lay before me, and I was unconvinced.”
― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander