Word: repentance
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However, if among a dozen people in a room last Saturday night, not a single one of us was certain that this was the case, then this presents a problem. I personally, and the rest of us, I think, too, repent that we were not better informed. However, the fact that not one of us knew indicates that the problem may be due to more than just my own ignorance or that of other isolated students. It may also be due to serious deficiencies in publicizing such a policy whose very effectiveness lies in whether it is widely understood...
...money can be used to support sectarian religious proselytizing. In this decision, the Court mandated that a state run university must subsidize an evangelical Christian student newspaper titled Wide Awake, which aims not only at discussing ideas about religion, but also at converting its readers and persuading them to repent and avoid hellfire by initiating a personal relationship with Christ...
...haste, repent at leisure, is one of the usual mottoes of collecting. But despite the breakneck speed at which Wynn has so far put his collection together, there are some works in it that any museum would envy. They include a late Cezanne, a portrait of his housekeeper painted around 1900, her brown dress as massively articulated as the side of a mountain; and one of the best Joan Miros in existence, Dialogue of the Insects, 1924-25, its precise forms buzzing and chirruping with strange lepidopteral life in a bare dream landscape...
Bathsheba becomes pregnant with David's child. The baby quickly becomes ill and dies. God accepts the baby as a sacrifice in place of David himself, for the King clearly must repent, and given biblical justice, someone must die. As painful as losing a child is, David must undergo further punishment...
...Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is an opportunity for Jews to repent for sins committed over the past year...