Let us then be tender with the erring and the sinful, rather than censorious, and full of rebuke.
Is it not the better way to point out the right--overcome the evil with the good, and thus bind our erring loved ones more firmly to ourselves.
But erring by his folly had approach'd So near, that little space was left to turn.
If I have sinned as others do, All human hearts the wide world through Are erring things, and then with me My greatest wrong was loving thee, Wilt thou condemn my constancy?
In this shape the imp had joined the rendezvous at the mill, and fleeing from the effects of Robin's valour, maliciously hoped that Lord William would execute a swift vengeance on his erring bride.
That had been composed of men seeking indeed for truth, but themselves erring and fallible creatures; the witnesses had been full of lies, the judges of darkness.
Sevigne, "hid herself in the grass like a violet," and whose modesty and humility in the midst of her erring triumphs drew from all hearts the pardon she never wrung from her own uncompromising conscience.
Can he be willing for the sake of a million florins to bind me for life to this erring creature, this infidel Louise?
But, after full inquiry and impartial reflection, we have long been convinced that he deserved as much love and esteem as can be justly claimed by any of our infirm and erring race.
But there is one--the recent attempt of our erring brethren, as they are sometimes called, to employ the negro to fight for them.
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
The "how many times" shows how faithfully Micaiah must have fulfilled his duty of speaking messages of God to his erring king.
Oh, the holy work that will have been wrought, should the heart of this erring lamb be won over to a peaceful life, and embrace the vail!
In a slower fashion, but with no less venom, Mr. Stobell also bent his regards upon that amiable but erring man.
As the stormy scenes which marked the progress of the bill continued, however, the less gifted Hunkers did not hesitate to declare the party dissolved unless the erring Radicals fell into line.
My country's wilful erring sons, Disloyal men, but brave, Such tears of anguish now she sheds Above the traitor's grave!
But in his chamber all alone That kingly head was bowed, And for the erring Absalom His father wept aloud.
He is too great, too pure, too perfect to have been invented by any sinful and erring man.
This tongue with blasphemies defil'd, These feet in erring paths beguil'd, In heavenly league agree.
Mrs. Harland was only too happy to forgive her erring but now truly penitent husband; but she trembled for the future, knowing how often he had formerly made like resolutions, but to break them.
This young man was the erring but still loved son of the Virginian widow, who for these long dreary years had roamed over the earth, unfriended and unaided, vainly imagining his own arm sufficient towards the ills of life.
Occasionally they speak of us in impartial and even complimentary terms, but generally in a vein of lofty patronage, such as an indulgent and much-enduring father might be supposed to use to his erring but not altogether godless offspring.
They convey the appeal which the Shepherd of Souls makes to a soul which has strayed from the flock: O my lost lamb, Thy master all forgetting, Whither dost erring go?
They were in no mood to be called erring children who must implore undeserved mercy and not force a loving parent to take unwilling vengeance.
She would not, however, deal harshly with her erring children.
At one time, when leprosy had ceased to be rife in Paris, the hospital was used as a prison for erring sons of good family.
In the seventeenth century a convent was built here, a sort of reformatory for erring girls and women of the upper classes who were shut up here in consequence of lettres de cachet.
Not for me the, crowns of gold, Palms, and harpings manifold; Not for erring eye and feet Jasper wall and golden street.
Thou lovest all: Thy erring child may be Lost to himself, but never lost to Thee!
Our weakness is the strength of sin, But love must needs be stronger far, Outreaching all and gathering in The erring spirit and the wandering star.
In the second, the erring shades are bound with cords and carry heavily-weighted cangues.
