Endorsements

“There is no writer in the evangelical world that I admire and appreciate more.”

—Billy Graham

_________________________

Disappointment with God 

“Few are better than Yancey in providing answers that can soothe a faith that’s almost been shattered.”

  —Charles R. Swindoll, pastor and author

“I feel nourished by it and my spirits raised by it.  It seems to me that you say a great many important things, about as simply and lucidly and honestly as they can be said.”

—Frederick Buechner, author

_________________________

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

“An enthralling, edifying book which I wish I had had the insight to write.”

—C. Everett Koop, M.D., Former Surgeon General of the United States.

“Reflections and stories by a humane tender of wounds.  Paul Brand’s book, like his life as a doctor, is wholly admirable.”

—Richard Selzer, author of Mortal Lessons and Confessions of a Knife

“A deeply meaningful book, and much-needed corrective to our opinions about the natural world: what membership means—in our bodies and in the Body.”

Sheldon Vanauken, author of A Severe Mercy

 _________________________

The Gift of Pain

 “…a beautiful, sensitive book about life…There is so much I’d like to say about this book and what it can teach us about treating, living with, and healing pain of all sorts.  Since space is limited I can only say, ‘Read it!’”

—Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles

“I took the day off from regular office work and read this marvelous book…”

—President Bill Clinton

“On every page I was fascinated, instructed, and uplifted by this magnificent memoir that is rendered with uncommon gracefulness.”

—Richard Selzer, author of Mortal Lessons and Confessions of a Knife

 _________________________

Grace Notes

When asked what books were on her night stand, Anne Lamott said, “a book of daily readings by Philip Yancey called Grace Notes.  He is my favorite Christian writer—so human and regular and wise and sweet and funny—and has hair just like me, which only eight other people in the world do.  (Art Garfunkel is another.)”

 _________________________

In His Image

“…an unusual medical, biological, and spiritual work.  A great appreciation of the human body, life, and belief in God fills this book.”

—Joseph E. Murray, M.D., Nobel Laureate, The New England Journal of Medicine

 _________________________

The Jesus I Never Knew

 “This is the best book about Jesus I have ever read, probably the best book about Jesus in the whole century.  Yancey gently took away my blinders and blazed the trail through my own doubting fears, pious know-it-all, and critical balderdash until I saw the Savior anew and thought I heard him ask me, ‘Now who do you say that I am?’ and I understood the question as I never had before.”

  —Lewis B. Smedes, author and theologian

 _________________________

“In a day when novel ideas about Jesus are all the rage, Yancey’s pages offer major help for seeing the Savior as he really was.”

—J. I. Packer, theologian and author of Knowing God

 _________________________

Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?

  “I have never read a book on prayer that touched me so deeply.  I believe that a hundred years from now people will be reading this book.”

—Brennan Manning, author of The Ragamuffin Gospel and Abba’s Child

 _________________________

Reaching for the Invisible God

“Everybody in the world should read this book!”

—Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

 _________________________

“A brilliant book. It is both profound and simple, the best blend, in my view. Simple is neither shallow, nor simplistic.  The sections on doubt and God’s ‘absence’ are classics.”

—Rick Warren, pastor and author of The Purpose Driven Life

 _________________________

A Skeptics Guide to Faith (formerly titled Rumors of Another World)

 “Reading it is like sitting in a darkened room and watching it slowly fill with light.  It’s Philip Yancey at his most stirring and insightful.”

—Steve Chalke, British pastor and author

 _________________________

Soul Survivor

 “I love Philip Yancey’s work.  He is a brilliant, graceful writer.  I am grateful for every marvelous book Philip Yancey writes.”

—Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies

 _________________________

“This book is a godsend for people who are religious but not churchmen, and for those who like spiritual companionship along the way of their journey.  Yancey’s fellow travelers here make good company for all hurting, hopeful, and thoughtful people.”

—Rev. Peter J., Gomes, Harvard University Chaplain and author of The Good Book.

 _________________________

“Let me…recommend it to anyone interested in a relaxed and conversational account of how an assortment of odd fish were variously caught up in and transformed by the Christian Gospel.”

—Frederick Buechner, author

 _________________________

What’s So Amazing About Grace

 “This is beyond a doubt the very best book I have read from a Christian author in my life.”

—Dr. Robert A. Seiple, former President of World Vision

 _________________________

“Philip Yancey is one of the most engaging and convicting writers in the Christian world.  Once again he has produced a work with something in it to make everyone mad.”

—Chuck Colson, author of Born Again and founder of Prison Fellowship

 _________________________

Where Is God When It Hurts

 “I started to read it thinking I was going to read a pleasant little easy-to-read book on the subject of pain.  I finished feeling as if I had read a classic.  It probes aspects of pain that C. S. Lewis never touches and draws upon the lives of suffering saints from John Donne to Joni Eareckson.”

—William J. Peterson, former Editor, Eternity Magazine

 _________________________

“I’ve read everything I can get my hands on about the problems of pain and evil, and this book is the clearest, most practical thing I’ve read.”

—Keith Miller, author of A Taste of New Wine

 _________________________

“If I expected to find inside a shallow theoretical treatise unworthy of such a profound question, that’s not what I found…by the time you get to the end of these chapters your heart is crying out, ‘Thank you, God, for pain!’”

—Paul Harvey, radio commentator

“One of the most helpful treatments of the problem of evil that I’ve ever read…on a level that really speaks to people.  If I were looking around for something to give to individuals who are going through travail or difficulty, that’s the book I’d recommend.”

—Vernon Grounds, theologian and seminary president

Comments are closed.