#unless

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#equivalent #evils #existence #god #harmony

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. ↗

— Thomas Becket

#faith #far #gives #god #harvest

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected. ↗

— Rand Beers

#convince #insurgents #people #protected #succeed

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#back #because #buy #counter #developed

I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go. ↗

— Faith Hill

#i #ready #them #things #unless

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. ↗

— Athanasius

#imitate #life #mind #possibly #pure

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#art #battles #cares #comes #down

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#creative #just #people #sense #think

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God. ↗

— William Blackstone

#considered #enactment #god #law #man

What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it. ↗

— Joan Blades

#care #going #members #our #successful