Is there such a thing as white lies?

White lies never exists to any book just for proven evidence but it exist into our mind to tell a lie for a good reason or good benefit to others. It's a lie but it doesn't compromise anything because you just did your part not to go somewhere the situation.

I do not understand the term "white lies", just like you, any religious book does not teach any form of deception, even though it was for the good lie. If there is, I believe it is only measured from human nature itself, not the size specified by the God

It's really a big problem! I know I'm not supposed to tell lies, but sometimes, truth will be hurt to persons indeed. Hence what my best method in this case is to keep silence or just say half a sentence and stop before the truth or lie. But of course, I will make it natural, othrewise it is the same as the truth. But even if I do, sometimes it's also hard to avoid to tell truth. Fortunately, I seldom to face this situation. Once I talked this problem in church, but no conclusion finally. I think the most importance is not to hurt people. If we are in the trouble like this, pray firstly, then do it kindly. Never hurt others, I think that is why people call this kind of lies as "white lies" to distinguish with those "bad white".

white lie is also a venial sin but on a lighter basis... you lie for the common good of a person...to protect or to avoid anything bad that will happen to that person... ^_^

It's simple: a white lies is when you tell something that is not true but you don't actually want to hurt anybody, in fact you'd like to make a good action by not telling the truth or not to hurt people feelings