Word info

gift from the gods

Noun

Meaning

gift from the gods (plural gifts from the gods)

(figuratively) Something very pleasant, beneficial or useful, often received unexpectedly and without being deserved.
Synonyms: gift from above, gift from heaven, gift from the heavens, (rare) gift from the goddesses

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation. Norman Mailer

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods. Peter A. Levine

Each and every being has an innate ability to heal as a gift from the gods. Mikao Usui

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving. Richard Wiseman

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. Bill Cosby

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