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If any fabric is contaminated with mildew—any wool or linen garment,
- Leviticus 13:47
and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
- Ephesians 5:27
Keep this commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Timothy 6:14
I never thought to ask her name, Father, but you know the little mulberry girl as you know each sparrow of the field. You are the white berry that removes the stain.
- Lisa Wingate
The US threatened to withhold badly needed loans to the Jewish state, an unconscionable move that is a permanent stain on the record of Bush.
- Terry James
The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.
- Charles Dickens
Sin is not only a defection—but a pollution. It is to the soul as rust is to gold, as a stain to beauty. It makes the soul red with guilt, and black with filth. Sin in Scripture is compared to a "menstruous cloth," and to a "plague-sore.
- Thomas Watson
The blood-stain has been much admired by tourists and others, and cannot be removed. That is all nonsense, cried Washington Otis; Pinkerton's Champion Stain Remover and Paragon Detergent will clean it up in no time, and before the terrified housekeeper could interfere, he had fallen upon his knees, and was rapidly scouring the floor with a small stick of what looked like a black cosmetic. In a few moments no trace of the blood-stain could be seen.
- Oscar Wilde
only God's truth without limit, without defect, without stain. This clean light, which tastes of Paradise, is beyond all pride, beyond comment, beyond proprietorship, beyond solitude. It is in all and for all. It is the true light that shines in everyone, in every man coming into this world. It is the light of Christ, Who stands in the midst of us and we know Him not.
- Thomas Merton
Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere.
- Billy Graham
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
- Samuel Beckett
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
- Samuel Beckett