By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity." - Meaning and context.">
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As quoted in Footprints in Time : Fulfilling God's Destiny for Your Life (2007) by Jeff O'Leary, p. 223
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

— Augustine of Hippo

What It Means

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Augustine of Hippo

About Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.