2007-01-29 03:10:34 · 7 answers · asked by handbag_addict_2006 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"That could have been me."
2007-01-29 03:14:21 · answer #1 · answered by KC 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is a way of saying that you can't take the credit yourself for not having the same bad experience as someone else -- that it is God who has preserved you and made you the kind of person you are in the situation you are in. The word translated as "grace" in the Bible is the Greek word for gift -- grace means that whatever we receive from God is a gift.
So -- people say this when they see another person who has experienced something bad in life. It is a way of not passing judgment or blaming the person for their misfortune. That it happened to someone else but not us is not because we are better than the other person, but because of God's will. It could just as easily have happened to us.
2007-01-29 12:13:18 · answer #2 · answered by Corinnique 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means, "it's really the lucky the exact same thing didn't happen to me!" The "grace of God" prevented the bad thing from happening even though you've done some bad things.
So, if you've driven a car while you are drunk, but arrive safely and a friend of yours is drunk driving but gets in a wreck, you would use this saying. It's admitting that you've done something wrong, but for some lucky reason, such as the grace of God, you did not suffer the consequences.
2007-01-29 11:16:17 · answer #3 · answered by hawkthree 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"there but for the grace of God go I" - This is a idiam meaning -
I also could be in that terrible situation, as in Seeing him with two flat tires on the highway, she said "There but for the grace of God go I." This expression has been attributed to John Bradford, who so remarked on seeing criminals being led to their execution (c. 1553) and who in fact was executed himself as a heretic a few years later. A number of religious leaders, including John Bunyan, have been credited with it as well. -
2007-01-29 11:31:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that without God's help and support, I am just as capable of doing the wicked things I see others doing. In other words don't look down your nose at sinners you deem worse than yourself, because if God withdraws His help form you, you'll be joining them soon.
2007-01-29 11:23:17 · answer #5 · answered by palaver 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it weren't for God's grace, that would be me.
2007-01-29 11:18:18 · answer #6 · answered by Give life. Be an organ donor! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that if you are born rich, you were anointed by God and are superior to those who weren't born rich.
2007-01-29 12:01:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋