Verb (used without object) : To err is human.    From Dictionary.com. 

There is so much beauty in erring, making mistakes, even hitting rock bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Battle Strategies for Winning the War on Perfectionism | Write to Done] Reference

This contrasts well with the erring from the faith on the part of the reprobate, 2Ti 2: 18.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

While I tend to agree it would really be nice to know who you're talking with and put some faces to names, there is no harm in erring on the side of caution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Show yourselves] Reference

Bertram begins his incantations, recalling the erring nuns from the dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference

"My mission is to preach the truth, to call erring children to repentance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite] Reference

But it was not at all beneath his dignity to call erring candidates to order or to indulge in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left End Edwards] Reference

We must recall their erring fancies to the acts of the Revolution which we revere, for the discovery of its true principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paras. 25-49] Reference

"Ideally - though it might overload your work day - scientists need to (politely) call erring reporters and give them to facts.".    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

On the contrary: He who called the erring to himself, who drew little children to his heart, who esteemed the poor above the rich, who was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serapis — Complete] Reference

Qatar to take disciplinary action against 'erring' diplomat.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Hence, from now on there will be a crane at the station permanently to lift the 'erring' vehicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

The world has need of you, the erring, sin-struck world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

"He was a little testy, and he was threat-erring to sue.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood's Most Controversial Director Oliver Stone Takes On Our Most Controversial President Richard Nixon] Reference

I imagined myself to be erring on the margins of brutally realistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society daily 10.08.2010] Reference

Yet with all the conflicting evidence, erring on the side of caution seems wise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthy Living, For Two] Reference

Courter argues for putting kids 'needs first, "" erring on the side of the child.' '.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Side Of The Child] Reference

But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 62: 2 Timothy The Challoner Revision] Reference

He is too great, too pure, too perfect to have been invented by any sinful and erring man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

We are placed here imperfect indeed, and erring; but still with preponderance of virtue over vice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference

This threat results from copier manufacturers erring by designing copiers to retain the data they copy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The privacy problem with photocopiers, and what to do about it] Reference

The grave of the erring man is covered with heaven's whitest, purest mantle of charity and forgetfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

For them we have no human interest -- not even such tears as we might shed for the lapse of an erring angel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things, and the foolish, and erring man, thinketh foolish things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

Besides, he was not unlike blusterers, and could denounce the erring with greater ease when they stood in awe of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse] Reference

However, most of the erring in the case of these writers arises from carelessness or hurry, not from a lack of knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference

Those who noticed her went by, some smiling in scorn, others filled with such pity as the truly good feel for erring humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

He hammers much in general upon our opinion's uncertainty, and the possibility of erring makes him not venture on what is true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

A gentle word, spoken in kindness to an erring brother, may do much towards winning him back to the path of rectitude and right.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

That grim face with its bulldog jaw was one any erring son well might dread, and particularly such a son as he had thus far been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

All told, I have been informed, hedge funds today are erring on the side of caution by using historically low levels of borrowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Err On The Side Of Caution] Reference

He hammers too much in general upon our opinion's incertainty, and the possibility of erring makes him not venture on what is true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

But instead of behaving sensibly, this erring knight suddenly disappears nobody knows where, leaving his bride in sorrow and anguish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

The earth, the sun, the millions of stars, says Mrs. Eddy, exist only in erring "mortal mind"; and mortal mind itself does not exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference

Little by little, during that first week, the truth found its way home to each man and woman personally interested in this erring son of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference