title: The Power of Grace: Magnifying the Glory of God's Gracious Gift
author: Jean Wright
description: "This is the most comprehensive book on grace I have ever read and I have read a lot of books." -- <i>Pastor Fletcher, November, 2001</i>
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  All men think all men mortal but themselves.
  
  
  
  
  
  \-- Edward Young
  
  
  
  
  
  Let us hob-and-nob with Death.
  
  
  
  
  
  \-- Tennyson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PROLOGUE
  
  
  
  
  
  In my hands is power. The power to heal or to destroy. To grant life or to
  cause death. I revere this gift, have honed it over time to an art as
  magnificent and awesome as any painting in the Louvre.
  
  
  
  
  
  I am art, I am science. In all the ways that matter, I am God.
  
  
  
  
  
  God must be ruthless and far-sighted. God studies his creations and selects.
  The best of these creations must be cherished, protected, sustained. Greatness
  rewards perfection.
  
  
  
  
  
  Yet even the flawed have purpose.
  
  
  
  
  
  A wise God experiments, considers, uses what comes into His hands and forges
  wonders. Yes, often without mercy, often with a violence the ordinary condemn.
  
  
  
  
  
  We who hold power cannot be distracted by the condemnations of the ordinary,
  by the petty and pitiful