What's So Amazing About Grace? Revised and Updated

“A balm to my judgment-sick soul. When I want to remember that God is good, I turn to this wise and gentle book.”

Kate Bowler

“Philip Yancey is a writer’s writer. His command and precision of language, textured narrative, sentence cadence, depth of insight, graceful style, and disarming self-disclosure make What’s So Amazing About Grace? the crown jewel of all his books. If you read the chapter “Lovesick Father” and do not weep for joy, I suggest you check your pulse, get an electrocardiogram, or make an appointment with your mortician.”

Brennan Manning

“What’s So Amazing About Grace? has stood the test of time for a reason. Decade after decade, Philip Yancey’s writing continues to point to God’s unchanging truth: in a world gone crazy, what we all need most is grace. Let the timeless wisdom in this book open your heart to the amazing reality of what grace can do.”

Andy Stanley

“As journalist, gadfly, and prophet rolled into one, Yancey’s habit is to stick out his neck and say, “Look—see—change!” Yancey’s treatment of the life of grace is vintage Yancey, and will give readers a salutary Christian shake-up. DR. J. I. PACKER, theologian What’s So Amazing About Grace doesn’t just stand the test of time. Its message that grace, not the thirst for power or exclusion, is at the heart of Christianity is more urgent than ever. Yancey’s classic should come with a warning: no religious platitudes allowed. The book is compulsively readable, drawing unexpected connections between everything from cult movies to finding a lost twenty-dollar bill, all to illustrate that we’re surrounded by the concept of grace—if we could just open our eyes. At the heart of this book is Yancey’s personal vulnerability and his unparalleled ability to make faith accessible to those wounded by organized religion. This is not just an excellent book on faith; it’s a provocative, deeply felt book for anyone willing to see the world in a different way.”

John Blake

“Philip Yancey’s writing was, by God’s grace, one of the things that kept me Christian as a teenager and young adult. He grew up in a world like mine, but the Jesus he wrote about was neither a cold-hearted abstraction nor a hot-tempered legalist. This book reminded me of the grace of which I stand amazed. If you’re tired of performing to please God or other people, this book might well do the same for you.”

Russell Moore

“When I was a college student in the 1990s, Philip Yancey’s books were transformative for me. He helped me understand the difference between the true Christianity of Jesus and the consumer pop-Christianity of my culture. And he took words that had become clichés, like grace, and re-enchanted them with the power and gravity that Scripture intended. That kind of transformation and re-enchantment is needed today more than ever. In our divided, polarized society, we need Philip Yancey’s sharp pen and gentle wisdom. Because through them, both Christians and non-Christians can discover the life-changing reality of God’s grace.”

Skye Jethani

“Evangelical Christians are big on salvation but often short on grace. Philip Yancey longs for the day when churches won’t be regarded as clubs of righteous people or dens of political correctness, but rather as communities of sinners to which all other sinners are welcome. What’s So Amazing About Grace? is a marvelously important book.”

Jim Wallis

“I’m trying to remember when I’ve read a more important book. With prophetic intensity, Yancey successfully nudges aside every other worthy—and not so worthy—agenda and restores “dispensing grace” as the central mission of the church. His thesis will alienate those whose Christianity centers on something else, and he invites all who thirst for grace to make it the bottom line of their lives. The message of this book has the power to reform the church, one relationship at a time.”

Dr. Larry Crabb

“Philip stretches the mind, touches the heart, and applies the grace of God to his writing theology applications and illustrations—the result being blessing, help, hope, and joy for the reader. What a grand investment of time for those of us thirsty to “know” in reality the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Jill Briscoe