thank God

1. Also,. I'm grateful, as in Thank God you arrived safely, or We didn't, thank goodness, run out of food, or Thank heaven the book arrived on time. These ejaculations originally expressed gratitude to divine providence but today tend to be used in a more casual way. [c. 1200]

Example Sentences

Her mother was a voice of discouragement and defeatism, and McLachlan feels she was “raised by wolves”: “I left the house at 9 a.m. and didn’t come home until I absolutely had to, and I was on my own. I had to pick myself up and figure out how to soothe myself — and thank god for music, because that was the thing that got me through. Music was my mother, really.”

From Los Angeles Times

Thank God the house didn’t burn down.’”

From Los Angeles Times

Thank God this was under his jurisdiction.

From Slate

“Because you should be offended by the reason that brought us to do this. What we’re doing here is not offensive. ... You should see what happened eight years ago when my kid was shot four times. Thank God you were not there because that will destroy you.”

From Los Angeles Times

Thank God I married someone who is a performer.

From Los Angeles Times