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He was forty years old, no more, and the color of a white napkin stained with olive oil. — Anonymous

All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows — Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm no doormat. At worst, I'm a very attractive accent rug, because if I get stained or damaged, someone is going to f---ing die. — S. Hart

Then, with a stately leap, the sun bounded into the sky, and the whole, messy, beautiful, broken world was stained with fire. — Kate Constable

Patches of stained red grass. Rotting baby limbs at dusk. The sound of cicadas and laughter; picnics with madmen by the black lake at noon. — Andrew Gallacher

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God. — Philip Zaleski

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century. — Diana Butler Bass

He swung around. His body, bathed in the first rays of the sun, was stippled
with color like a stained glass saint. — Cameron Dane

her magenta lips a wolf's stained smile. — Janet Fitch

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass. — John Fowles

Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well. — Braden Pedersen

Men's desire - it stopped for nothing. Even then,even when I was stained the lurid color of waste -- even then someone wanted me. — Louise Wareham Leonard

I knew I could never clean away this memory. We were stained and spoiled forever. — Keren David

I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled. — Anais Nin

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. — Adrienne Clarkson

Familiar mahogany-stained pews with red velvet cushions sucked the light from the interior. — Sally Kilpatrick

Was that what I'd have to do? Pry my ribs open and see whose hands fit, whose fingers were stained with the same red inside me? — Leah Raeder

Farm labor had stained his hands, but music stained his heart. — Brenda Sutton Rose

where does it derive its strength?
is it the blood soaked soil?
or the fear stained heart? — A.P. Sweet

I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside
stronger than I ever realized. — Cheryl Rainfield

Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living. — Pierce Brown

But show me just this one thing, my darling, i seek a heart stained like a poppy flower. — Fatima Bhutto

If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows. — Sylvia Plath

I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do. — Cheryl Rainfield

My walls no longer protect me. They never protected me. Their solidity is mere illusion, their whiteness is stained — Agota Kristof

Shame, however, was what I felt seeping through me as though it stained my white bones black. — Lian Hearn

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works. — Charles Spurgeon

and hot raw wood. There was a guy behind a counter, in worn blue overalls stained black with dirt. He was — Lee Child

How long can you brush up against evil and not come away stained with it yourself? — Lara Adrian

The purest white seems stained. — Laozi

Just her, just him. Just as it should be; no loss of life beyond their own, no soul stained but hers. It would take a monster to destroy a monster. If — Sarah J. Maas

And there is something else I realize now. That Fabiola was right. If you stare into the eyes of darkness, you will always get stained. — Cameron Jace

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value. — Evan Meekins

The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. — Alexandra Ivy

Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly. — Sara Genn

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.
-The Blood-Stained Pavement — Agatha Christie

The best manners are stained by haughtiness. — Claudius Claudianus

I should know better than anyone
you can't tell who a person is just from his looks. — Cheryl Rainfield

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp. — Chuck Palahniuk

We're altered, we're abnormal, our souls stained with each other's mark. Our souls are that of monsters born in the dark. — Pepper Winters

You were a jumble of broken bits of glass the sun caught and stained my soul with your colors ... — John Geddes

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings! — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

On the shelves along the wall my stacks. Jumbled and worn. Pagers curled and stained. Spines creased and cracked. — Lucas Klauss

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. — Robert McAfee Brown

Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. — Frederick Lenz

I see you kneeling in church - stained only by colored windows — John Geddes

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch. — David Simon

The hafts of the tools were stained black with th sweat of us all, our contributions, black and white alike. — M T Anderson

Prayer is about real-world concerns, spoken in real-world language. God does not want us to shift into a stained-glass prayer voice to address Him. — David Jeremiah

The house felt haunted, like only I understood the way all of our shadows, the ones we'd left, had seeped into the wood and stained it. — Ava Dellaira

She couldn't see him, but his voice was like light through a stained-glass window in a cathedral. — Graham Joyce

This sin-stained planet would have ripped apart at the seams long ago were it not for the restraining hand of God. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Outside, the world whistled. The rain was stained. — Markus Zusak

Love isn't over when the sheets are stained. — Ani DiFranco

Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained. — Thomas Hardy

From they sack and they belly opened
And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth
They feed they Lion and he comes. — Philip Levine

I try to fill the emptiness deep inside me with Cheetos, but I am still depressed. Only now my fingers are stained orange. I am blue. And I am orange. — Karen Salmansohn

Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me. — Yohji Yamamoto

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. — Julia Cameron

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. — Wilfred Owen

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past? — Jenna Blum

Your soul stained my shoulders. my whole life smells like you. this will take time. undoing you from my blood. — Nayyirah Waheed

A girl who could send tear-stained telegrams. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Stained upon my hands, the blood of innocents brands my soul with such a crime forgiveness gapes appalled. — Michael J. Sullivan

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year. — Friedrich Schiller

So, here are my windows, stained all with me. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday? — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

The saga of semen stained sheets continues. — Kristy Berridge

His shirt is covered in my sorrow and stained with my tears. — H.M. Ward

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed. — Johnny Cash

She was pure, it was true, as he had never dreamed of purity; but cherries stained her lips. — Jack London

The forest opened the road, his reeds in one fist, devotion in the other, a bow on the back, words as petals, and a blood-stained smile. — Gwen Calvo

Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun — Gayle Forman

Your soul is stained with the blood of the innocent, feel their pain — Neil Peart

We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons. — Chic Murray

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself. — Cheryl Rainfield

I was stained by failure. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you. — Courtney M. Privett

The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes. — China Mieville

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true. — Saul Williams

2a.m and a ceiling stained with question marks. — Jenim Dibie

Carnage stained the skies. — Sasha Alsberg

Visions flashed through her mind. A fluttering of white wings. A burning arrow. Stained glass under her feet. — Tiffany Reisz

My heart lost rhythm at the flicker of phantom in the whiskey-stained voice. — Iceberg Slim

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion. — Jim Morrison

He came down the nave, walking with his graceful stride, dangerous and tear-stained. — Laura Kinsale

One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game. — Emo Philips

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. — Claudius Claudianus

The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali. — Jules Verne

In a church of my own we're perfect together
I recognize you in the stained glass — Heather Nova

Something beautiful. My hands are stained red — Ally Condie

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded. — Erma Bombeck

I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ... — John Geddes

In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours. — Izumi Shikibu

The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass. — Eugene H. Peterson

I'm afraid it will never be perfect again. I am indelibly stained. Forever redefined, but blurred around the edges. — Ellen Hopkins

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear. — William Blake

Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment — Charles Swindoll

For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. — Marc Chagall