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

"We are the living stones of the Church."

From BBC

"These Christians are living stones, and without their presence, the Holy Land and its holy sites risk becoming a museum," Parolin told Vatican Television on the eve of the trip.

From US News

Holy Prophets and Holy Apostles, and confessors, and martyrs, are the foundation of the sacred building; the Holy Jesus is the corner stone, in whom ye—the living stones—must be fitly framed together.

From Project Gutenberg

You are rearing temples of living stones which shall survive all the changes and chances of earth and time, and look sublimely down upon the world's catastrophe.

From Project Gutenberg

Paul and Silas were really in trying circumstances; but they were there as living stones and holy priests.

From Project Gutenberg