There are many books that promise a person confidence in the future and talk about how to be the master of your own destiny. And so Philip Yancey was not afraid to write about the mystery surrounding human faith, about the risk that faith implies and without which faith is impossible. Yancey's strength as a writer is his ability to ask difficult questions and his reluctance to give easy answers. He writes: “The more personal God is for a person, the closer to his heart he takes everything that is connected with God.” God is a person, but an invisible Person, as if constantly eluding us - material creatures. The author undertakes to explore six facets of a Christian's life - thirst for God, the desire to understand Who God is, the relationship to the Holy Spirit, faith itself, spiritual growth and spiritual transformation. The author shows how the ability to trust a loving God helps in difficult times.

Philip Yancey is a writer, author of twelve books, including The Bible That Jesus Read, The Jesus I Didn't Know, and What amazing in grace”, “Disappointment in God”, “You have wonderfully formed my inward parts”, “In His image”, “Prayer”, “Where is God when I suffer”, “Echoes of another world”. He is not afraid to raise issues that the Christian world prefers to avoid.