Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

Collyer’s aphorism frames faith as a kind of moral and imaginative hearing: what sounds like “discord” in the present—conflict, loss, uncertainty, or apparent meaninglessness—may, through trust in a larger providential or ethical order, be understood as contributing to a future “harmony.” The musical metaphor suggests that time supplies the missing resolution; what cannot yet be integrated into a coherent pattern may later be perceived as necessary tension within a larger composition. In Collyer’s liberal Christian register, the line encourages perseverance and hope without denying present pain, implying that faith does not erase discord but reinterprets it within a longer arc of meaning.