Moving to Higher Ground in Christ

"From that day when Pierre, after leaving the Rostov's with Natasha's look of gratitude still in mind, had gazed at the comet that appeared to be fixed in the sky and felt something new was beginning for him-from that day the besetting problem of the vanity and absurdity of all earthly things had ceased to trouble him. That terrible question of "Why? What for?" which till then had arisen in the midst of every occupation, was now replaced, not by another question or the answer to the former one, but by her image. Whether he read or was told of human abasement or folly, he was not horrified as formerly, and did not ask himself why men struggled when all is so emphemeral and uncertain, but remembered her as he has last seen her, and all his doubts vanished-not that she answered the questions that confronted him, but because his vision of her instantly transported him to another, brighter realm of spiritual activity, where there could be neither right nor wrong, a realm of beauty and love that was worth living for."​