²⁷ “He did all this so that people might seek God in the hope that by groping for him they might find him, even though indeed he is not far from any one of us. ²⁸ For ‘In him we live and move and have our being.’^[a] As even your own poets have said, ‘We are all his offspring.’

²⁹ “Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like an image of gold or silver or stone, fashioned by human art and imagination.