The rock

The rock, when one came to think of it, was the utmost expression of human need; even mere feeling yearned for it; it was the highest comparison of loyalty and love and friendship. Christ Himself had used that comparison for the disciple to whom He gave the keys of His Church. And the Hebrews of the Old Testament, always being carried captive into foreign lands, - their rock was an idea of God, the only thing their conquerors could not take from them.

“Death Comes For the Archbishop”, Willa Cather