Sentence examples for except to believe from inspiring English sources

They had committed no crime except to believe that moral and religious reform was more important than social revolution.

It does not seem possible to date the Yashts much more precisely, except to believe that their redaction (not necessarily composition) may have first taken place in the 5th century bce.

It is one more right-wing victimization fable, repeated endlessly until the public has no choice except to believe it.

Hartshorne points out that Anselm's God can give us "everything except the right to believe that there is one who, with infinitely subtle and appropriate sensitivity, rejoices in all our joys and sorrows in all our sorrows" (Hartshorne 1948, 54).

The Madoff fraud would be even harder to believe, except that it just happened.

Everything is real, we're led to believe, except the bullets.

It makes sense to give him some swings at first, except that Piazza seems to believe in the old Army adage of "never volunteer".

Warnings Ignored Khrushchev was also quoted as saying that before the German attack in 1941 everyone knew that war was coming except Stalin, who refused to believe it.

Her attitude toward religion was somewhere between uninterested and hostile, except that she claimed to believe that you could hear what your children said about you at your funeral.

I'm impressed with David Hackett Fischer's critique of the movie "The Patriot" (Op-Ed, July 1), but as a teacher of history he knows that popular pedagogy dictates that there is no truth except what we want to believe.

Nobody who has seen the new data is talking, except to say not to believe the blogs, where a rumor of an enhanced signal has ricocheted around, and to warn that even if the signal is real, it may require much more data and analysis to establish that it actually acts like the Higgs boson and not an impostor.