Sentences with phrase «laid upon the rock»

But we see in Luke 6:48 that the foundation is laid upon the rock.

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[48] He is like to a man building a house, who digged deep, and laid the foundation upon a rock.

So, when Jesus says: «thou art Peter (petra, a pebble) UPON THIS ROCK I BUILD MY CHURCH (The Church is His Bride, only He can lay claim to it, that is why He says «My Church») and THE VERY GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.»

«In his sleep he could hear the horses stepping among the rocks and he could hear them drink from the shallow pools in the dark where the rocks lay smooth and rectilinear as the stones of ancient ruins and the water from their muzzles dripped and rang like water dripping in a well and in his sleep he dreamt of horses and the horses in his dream moved gravely among the tilted stones like horses come upon an antique site where some ordering of the world had failed and if anything had been written on the stones the weathers had taken it away again and the horses were wary and moved with great circumspection carrying in their blood as they did the recollection of this and other places where horses once had been and would be again.