No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.
Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.
My whole approach to wardrobe is, throw it in a suitcase and make sure they don't press it, for Pete's sake, so I can try to display some rumpled charm. Actually, I'm just a pig. I've got coffee stains on my pants. I think they're coffee stains, anyway.
I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration. Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.
I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.
Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.
What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,. . . the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,. . . ?
Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.
What is working stain, does not soil.
The pastor should always be pure in thought. . . no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the stains in the hearts of others. . . for the hand that would cleanse from dirt must be clean, lest, being itself sordid with clinging mire, it soil whatever it touches all the more.
His eyes were cold and brown - like coffee stains.
The stain of prejudice is often indelible.
You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!
