Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope." in the context of "Statement on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, after her election as Prime Minister, as quoted at On this day (BBC). (This is a paraphrasing of a prayer(27 January 2009), Who wrote Prayer of St. Francis? Doubtful it was friar, "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy." work: San Diego Union-Tribune, retrieved: 28 July 2019 commonly misattributed to St. Francis of Assisi.)Howse, Christopher (12 April 2013), The real prayer of Francis of Assisi, "That was written in 1912, in French, and published in a pious magazine edited by Fr Esther Bouquerel. It was attributed to St Francis in 1927 through its having been printed on the back of a picture of the saint." work: The Daily Telegraph, retrieved: 28 July 2019(27 January 2009), Who wrote Prayer of St. Francis? Doubtful it was friar, "An article published last week in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said the prayer in its current form dates only from 1912, when it appeared in a French Catholic periodical. ... Although news to many, the truth about the prayer had apparently been hiding in plain sight. “No one among the Franciscans ever thought it really was by St. Francis,” said Giovanni Maria Vian, the editor of L'Osservatore Romano." work: San Diego Union-Tribune, retrieved: 28 July 2019" to mean that wisdom is timeless.