living stones

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.

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

Be sure the cement that must unite the living stones of the spiritual house is brotherly love and fervent charity.

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

Thus we have the living God, the living Stone, the living stones.

From Project Gutenberg