Sentence examples for We atone for from inspiring English sources

But that time has passed, and it's not an overstatement to say that unless we atone for our infrastructure sins the high tide of American greatness will have passed as well.

Through this experience, it proves that we can atone for our mistakes.

So the proper attitude is not to preach, but to atone, and we can only atone for what we ourselves did, and only really ask forgiveness for the crimes committed by people we love or admire.

On Yom Kippur we recited the "Ashamnu" prayer where we list 22 sins we need to atone for.

Do we have something to atone for when we get on television and records and radio, calling our women out of their names, facilitating gun violence and drugs, and glorifying it?

Yes, we have much atone for.

By burying the remains of innocent victims, we want to atone for the sins of our ancestors.

While the shape of the rituals change, the stories stay the same – humans have been performing purification rituals for centuries, believing we need to atone for our sins, whether spiritual or sugar-based.

"To begin to live in the present we must first atone for our past and be finished with it," the playwright said in "The Cherry Orchard," a prescription quite current now among the political opposition finally coming to bud here.

"We need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forebears, to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people," he said.

"I just wonder if the willingness of a society to sacrifice their sons is what we need to atone for," Talve said.