Top 199 Stained Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.
If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.
Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.
I was stained by failure.
I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass.
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.
We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
If someone tests positive for coronavirus, our sport would be stained forever.
All of this blue on my face is from the gunpowder residue from the grenade. It blasted it into my face and stained the skin.
God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.
First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' began what would be one of the icons of my grunge-stained disenchanted childhood.
In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.
Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.
The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.
The purest white seems stained.
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
People are saying: 'the Argentina uniform should not be stained.' Forget about it. The Argentina uniform is already pretty stained.
For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman!
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement
Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun
My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.
We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons.
What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Well, that's hard to do when you're on this blood stained street.
Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?
I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.
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.
Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.
I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
The best manners are stained by haughtiness.
Love isn't over when the sheets are stained.
Stained glass enabled the modern world.
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game.
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!
Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.
It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair.
A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.
The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows.
A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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.
Prosciutto should be thin and let light through like stained glass. Even I know that.
For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass
Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist
The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.
