divine blessing
Grace from above
Divine blessing is a gift, favor, or protection believed to come from God or a higher power.
Religious contexts treat blessings as supernatural benefits conferred through prayer, ritual, or holy intermediaries: The priest pronounced a divine blessing over the congregation.
More loosely, any fortunate circumstance may be called a divine blessing: Finding that job felt like a divine blessing.
- favorKind act or preference
- benedictionFormal spoken blessing
- providenceDivine protective care
- anointingCeremonial oil application
- laying on handsHealing through physical contact
halo · salvation · consecration · charism · grace · sanctification · beatitude · mercy · answered prayer · peace · intercession · deliverance · miracles · healing · gift from above · blessedness · abundance · joy
- blessingsspiritual gifts, God bless, God bless you, blessed be, baptismal font
- heroic questquest, odyssey, call to adventure, hero's journey, departure
- Biblical eldersMethuselah, Abraham, Sarah, Noah, Moses
- Prosperity Gospelprosperity gospel, televangelist, televangelism, megachurch, seed money
divine blessingcurse
Invoked harm through words
damnation · malediction · divine punishment · divine wrath · anathema
divine blessingblack magic
Evil supernatural practice
hellfire · dark magic · witchcraft · sorcery · devilry
divine blessingexcommunication
Formal barring from sacraments
fall from grace · perdition · spiritual exile · dark night of the soul · godlessness