Quotes on Stains

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.