Apostol § 40

In those days, while Paul waited for Silas and Timothy at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he saw that the city was given over to idolatry. Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout worshipers, and in the market daily with those who happened to be there. Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him and some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to proclaim strange gods,” because he preached unto them Jesus and the Resurrection... And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? For you bring some strange things to our ears, and we would [want] to know what these things mean.” For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your devotions, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him declare I unto you: God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Neither is He worshipped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, and breath, and all things. And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might feel Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being...