Creation Quote by John Dryden

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

— Ovid

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him…

— Alfred Noyes

“And while the other creatures on all fours Look downwards, man was made to hold his head Erect in majesty and see the sky,…

— A. D. Melville

There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in…

— Maria McCann

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater…

— Joseph Addison

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's…

— Laurence Housman

“As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and…

— Anonymous

“Man sets his hand to games of power and influence, he quests for far horizons and wealth beyond imagining. He thinks to own what…

— Juliet Marillier

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

— John Piper

“He closed his eyes in the languor of sleep. His eyelids trembled as if they felt the vast cyclic movement of the earth and…

— James Joyce