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phr. Were it not for God's help, someone could have suffered that outcome.
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"But for the Grace of God" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music singer Keith Urban. The song was written by Urban, Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin. It was released in November 2000 as the third single from his self-titled American debut album. It became his first No. 1 single on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart on February 24, 2001, a position that it spent one week at.
The song ended a two-and-a-half-year streak in which no artist on the Capitol Records label achieved a Number One single on the country charts.
Usage examples of "but for the grace of god".
I took the exam for the Los Angeles Police Department and would have become a pig but for the grace of God and Al Mathews, an alcoholic I met while wrapping toys in the shipping department of a wholesale toy company on Third Street in downtown L.
I like my cops to be ordinary chaps like myself who can look at some poor devil in trouble and think: There but for the grace of God go I.
And all the time I've been saying to myself: 'There, but for the grace of God .
Something in that awful gulf between perfect plans and fallible men that makes one tremble with a sense of There but for the Grace of God go we.
That kind of queerness is easy to understand, for sure, and but for the grace of God Gerald O’.