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If it was a venial sin.venial = easily excused or forgiven
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It was a venial error.
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That's why they have different sins, the sacrilege, the mortal sin, the venial sin. (source)
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Venial sins are lighter, like a rash instead of measles. (source)
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Sent psychologists out to these people's houses, gave them a free TV set to submit to an anonymous interview, hooked them to polygraphs, studied their brain waves as they showed them choppy, inexplicable movies of porn queens and late-night car crashes and Sammy Davis, Jr., put them in sweet-smelling, mauve-walled rooms and asked them questions about Ethics so perplexing that even a Jesuit couldn't respond without committing a venial sin.† (source)
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"If you die with a venial sin on your soul, where do you go?" he asked.† (source)
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I remember Sister Theresa telling us the difference between mortal sin and venial.† (source)venial = easily excused or forgiven
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And the Venial Sins.† (source)
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On the other hand, the predetermined adversary has no venial motive whatever.† (source)
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Can you get him to imitate this defect in his mistress and to exaggerate it until what was venial in her becomes in him the strongest and most beautiful of the vices—Spiritual Pride?† (source)
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Nevertheless, there may well have been periods of history when purgatory could not be hoped for; periods when it was impossible to speak of venial sin.† (source)
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That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins — impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity — cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all.† (source)
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The natural vigour in the venial sin Is the way in which our lives begin.† (source)
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Sometimes he had amused himself by putting difficult questions to me, asking me what one should do in certain circumstances or whether such and such sins were mortal or venial or only imperfections.† (source)
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Yet it appeared to me that we were all, at Bly, sufficiently sacrificed to make that venial.† (source)
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This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.† (source)
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