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Definition of Grace of God
1. Noun. (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God. "There but for the grace of God go I"
Generic synonyms: Beneficence
Category relationships: Christian Theology
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grace Of God
Literary usage of Grace of God
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER LIII That the grace of God doth not join itself to those who mind earthly
things " MY Son, precious is My grace, it suffereth not itself to be ..."
2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"For it is very certain, that where the grace of God reigns, there is such a
promptitude of obedience. But whence does this arise but from the Spirit of God, ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Its holiness is shown by the fact that Christ is its head, and that the sanctifying
grace of God works ..."
4. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"Not only elected kings, but dukes, counts who held offices under the king, and
bishops and abbots recognised in the same wav the grace of God. ..."
5. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... men's reprobation and condemnation, but by turning from this grace of God into
... man that cometh into the world: and the grace of God in the gospel, ..."
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