Sentence examples for a venial sin from inspiring English sources

A venial sin usually involves a less important matter and is committed with less self-awareness of wrongdoing.

Does that count as lying about my education, or is it merely a venial sin of omission?

While a venial sin weakens the sinner's union with God, it is not a deliberate turning from him and so does not wholly block the inflow of sanctifying grace.

"Unless Micheletti does something incredibly outrageous or stupid, I still think he has won this," says Peter Hakim, of Inter-American Dialogue, a think-tank in Washington, DC. "Honduras may have committed a venial sin, but it's not Serbia or Darfur.

The rest is a jungle of inchoate data that seems deliberately to eschew, like other collective research projects, such human qualities as reason (the reader has to do most of the work of ordering the material) and feeling (if Mr. Harrington sometimes has too much, it is a venial sin compared to the bleakness of this prose).

While in the give and take of daily life most people would regard lying about sexual history to be a venial sin, the church has always held out lying under oath, or perjury, as a serious sin in that we call upon God as witness of our veracity.

Sex for the sake of procreation is not sinful, and sex within marriage solely to satisfy lust is a pardonable (venial) sin.

By Russian standards, this was a venial venal sin, if sin at all.

Since the Eucharist takes away venial sin, a Catholic may never have to go to confession if mortal sin is not present.

Thank God believing in them was never an issue of mortal or even venial sin! Fourth: There's also an awful lot of talk in the Pope's new book about Augustus Caesar, bringer of universal peace, divus filius divi, "God and son of God," being called soter ("savior") -- a "theological figure" who arranged that history be started from his reign, the true origin of the term anno domini.

Khodorkovsky was also forced into lead an eremitic existence after committing the relatively venial sin of drinking tea in an unauthorized place.