get religion
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Sometimes before they die or stop running for office they get "religion" and try to do some good with new found perspective.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2017
Several pundits made hay yesterday attacking Smith personally, arguing that he waited till he made his millions to get religion, or that he only quit because he was consistently passed up for promotions.
From Time ● Mar. 16, 2012
This, writes Jeff Schultz of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, is causing the coaches to suddenly get religion on the agent issue.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2010
"HellCat" Gantry, the black-maned campus bully with his boasted amours and loud contempt, get religion?
From Time Magazine Archive
"He who possesses science and art, has religion; he who possesses neither science nor art, let him get religion," said Goethe in one of his frequent accesses of paganism.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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