Sentence examples for a rock upon from inspiring English sources

He was a rock upon which I could build my life".

It's not, you know -- 'Rock of Ages' is a nice hymn and I'm not contesting it, but my faith is not a rock upon which I stand and, you know, fight against the arrows of outrageous fortune, et cetera.

For all the millions Hughes has spent for Manchester City and Q.P.R., he never forgets that his team needs a rock to depend upon.

Up on a rock we come upon a female, resting.

In the key passage, he quotes from the end of the Sermon on the Mount, about one man who built his house on sand and another who built on rock: "when 'the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.' " It was inspired speechmaking, and hardly anyone remembers it.

"The house upon a rock" did not become a catchphrase for the Administration's domestic agenda.

Christ built his church upon a rock, Young told the students; a marriage requires a similarly unyielding foundation.

That's our house built upon a rock," he said, mixing two of America's favorite things — Biblical allusions and real estate.

The god's first shrine was built on the spot where priests found an eagle poised upon a rock and devouring a snake, an image so important to Mexican culture that it is portrayed on the national flag of Mexico.

As punishment for her disobedience, she will lose her place among the gods and become a mortal woman, and she will be left to sleep upon a rock until a mortal man has claimed her.

Fortified by the 27th Psalm ("He shall set me up upon a rock"), Mr Colson picked teams of Centurions to "change the culture" of the country, and founded a Chuck Colson Centre to help a "Christian worldview" take hold.