living stones

American  

noun

1. any of various succulent plants of the genus Lithops, native to Africa, having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones.

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Example Sentences

Be living stones of the temple of which Christ is the chief corner-stone!

From Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by Kingston, William Henry Giles

All believers are built upon the living Stone, Christ; and are thus constituted living stones.

From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)

The faithful are the living stones of the edifice.

From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James

Through their mediation these living stones have some message for our heart, something at once alien and intimate, which neither the stars nor the flowers of the field ever told to our forefathers.

From Underground Man by Tarde, Gabriel

Here were two really "living stones," and nothing that earth or hell could do could hinder the life that was in them expressing itself in its proper accents.

From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)