hand of God
Supreme being's touch
The hand of God refers to divine intervention in human affairs—God reaching into the world to alter events.
The phrase often appears when unlikely circumstances produce dramatic outcomes, especially rescues or reversals that seem beyond chance: It was as if the hand of God had intervened.
In sports, it notoriously describes Diego Maradona's illegal but uncalled handball goal in the 1986 World Cup, which he attributed to the hand of God.
- miracleSupernatural occurrence beyond explanation
- divine interventionGodly action in affairs
- Sistine ChapelVatican worship hall
- metaphorImplied identity comparison
- footballField sport with goals
Maradona · soccer history · providence · higher power · creation · Diego · World Cup · allegory · moral agency · goal · folklore · legend · blessing · mythology · Michelangelo · Renaissance art · religious art · divine will
- Bible visionswheels within wheels, valley of dry bones, valley of bones, dry bones, burning bush
- Christian Symbolscross, crucifix, fish symbol, INRI, Alpha Omega
- iconographysymbol, symbols, halo, halos, nimbus
- Divine Presencedivine presence, theophany, immanence, omnipresence, indwelling
- Sacred Phrasesamen, hallelujah, alleluia, glory be, blessed be
hand of Godrandom chance
Uncontrolled probability
natural causes · coincidence · human agency · blind luck · accident
hand, hands, handed, handing, handy, handily, handiness, handful, handfuls