If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.
- Leviticus 19:7
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
- Oscar Wilde
Emotions are not amoral—they vocalize the inner working of our souls and are as tainted as any other portion of our personality.
- Dan Allender
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
- Thomas Merton
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.