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“There but for the grace of God go I.”
Allegedly from a mid-sixteenth-century statement by John Bradford, "There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford," in reference to a group of prisoners being led to execution.
A paraphrase from the Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:8–10, which states, "Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am...".