Sentence examples similar to venial errors from inspiring English sources

Though it is their province to administer justice, and not to bestow mercy; and though it is better not to err at all; yet, in a doubtful case, an error on the side of mercy is safer, is more venial, than error on the side of rigid justice.

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Sins were divided into three grades – original, venial and mortal.

But these are venial rather than mortal sins.

There are venial sins, and then there are mortal ones.

It's about venial sins in a good world".

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

I was witness to mutilated hands and other wounds as mortal or venial as sins.

But his mistakes are venial, outweighed by his vivid, visceral prose.

Actual sin is subdivided, on the basis of its gravity, into mortal and venial.

The recent London School of Economics imbroglio with Gaddafi was a modestly venial example.