GRACE OF GOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grace of God mean? 

• GRACE OF GOD (noun)
  The noun GRACE OF GOD has 1 sense:

1. (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God

  Familiarity information: GRACE OF GOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRACE OF GOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

free grace; grace; grace of God

Context example:

there but for the grace of God go I

Hypernyms ("grace of God" is a kind of...):

beneficence (the quality of being kind or helpful or generous)

Domain category:

Christian theology (the teachings of Christian churches)

 Context examples 

I never hear of such a case as this that I do not think of Baxter’s words, and say, ‘There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah! there I have hope that our man-brains that have been of man so long and that have not lost the grace of God, will come higher than his child-brain that lie in his tomb for centuries, that grow not yet to our stature, and that do only work selfish and therefore small.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When he hath come, and when our fair consort is recovered in her health, which I trust by the grace of God may be ere many weeks be past, we shall then join the army at Dax, and set our banners to the breeze once more.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)