divine grace

Heaven's free gift

Divine grace is unmerited favor or blessing from God—help, forgiveness, or salvation given freely rather than earned.

In Christian theology especially, grace is what saves sinners despite their unworthiness: By grace you have been saved through faith.

The phrase emphasizes that the gift comes from beyond human effort or deserving.

Someone who survives disaster by the grace of God acknowledges forces beyond their control.

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unmerited · compassion · kindness · free will · forgiveness · imputation · predestination · reconciliation · covenant · blessing · justification · faith · holiness · heaven · eternal life · repentance · born again · favor

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merit and earning

divine gracemerit

Deserved praise-worthiness

works · self-righteousness · karma · legalism · wages

divine disposition toward humanity

divine gracedivine wrath

Sacred punishment from above

damnation · divine punishment · divine retribution · hellfire · divine judgment

spiritual state or condition

divine gracesin

Violation of divine law

fallen state · spiritual death · original sin · damnation · depravity

Family

grace, divine, gracious, gratitude, divinity

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