Preposition
apart from
Except for; besides, apart (postposition).
It is only next to God that we can find true and eternal joy. We taste bitter poison when we live apart from sweet Jesus. Paisios of Mount Athos
Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God. Dorotheus of Gaza
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis
There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge. Boris Johnson
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Eric Hoffer
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. George Eliot