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True paradise was not here in this sin-stained world -- it was in heaven.

Brenda Peterson: Oil Spill: A Great Awakening? 2010

True paradise was not here in this sin-stained world -- it was in heaven.

Brenda Peterson: Oil Spill: A Great Awakening? 2010

I replied, "I seem to have a need to suffer," which might have been inculcated by my education in Roman Catholic schools, where I was taught that my sin-stained soul would be denied the joys of heaven if I failed to cleanse it through one form of self-flagellation or another.

Phil Caputo: Old Age and Elk Hunting in the Rocky Mountains 2007

That is, God created a special, sin-free soul for Mary, rather than just letting her pick up a sin-tainted soul from the common sin-stained soul grab-bag of human souls.

Obama's Wooing Of Evangelicals Runs Into Fierce Resistance 2009

Yet heartache and trials are inevitable in this sin-stained and fallen world….

When God Answers Prayer BOB RUSSELL 2003

Yet heartache and trials are inevitable in this sin-stained and fallen world….

When God Answers Prayer BOB RUSSELL 2003

I seem to have flung myself — sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened — down upon these forest leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath been merciful!

The Scarlet Letter 2002

AFTER a storm has wreaked its fury upon a sin-stained world, it is said that poisonous gases are dissipated, the air is purer, vegetation is washed and all nature rises refreshed and purified.

Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

Also "And oft I think, if e'en earth's sin-stained ground," a translation of stanzas I, IX, by Mrs. Stanley Carr in her translation of Wildenhahn's Paul Gerhardt, 1845 and 1856. 5.

Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

It is one pure soul, precious as multitudes of more sin-stained souls.

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race