What is working stain, does not soil.
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain. ' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.
Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
The stain of prejudice is often indelible.
Only the heart without a stain knows ease.
Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
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.