Examples:

• I almost went with him the day he committed the crime, that could have been me, there but for the grace of God go I.
• Whenever I think of poor Fran and her problems, I think there but for the grace of God go I.
• There can sometimes be a strange “there but for the grace of God go I” feeling to looking at other people’s lives through the prism of our names.
• The person in the other car was sadly killed, there but for the grace of God go I.
• Wow, I could have been in that accident had I left the house earlier. There but for the grace of God go I.