Faith offers existential meaning that transcends suffering and death.

Evidence

Whatever answers any kind of faith ever gives to anyone, every one of these answers clothes with infinity the finite existence of man, gives a meaning to life which triumphs over suffering, privation, and death. … In faith, therefore, alone is found a possibility of living and a meaning in life. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 130

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 130
• XREF: connects to: True faith provides meaning to ordinary people’s lives. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 153; Faith has importance in providing meaning to life. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 184; Faith can become a pain rather than a source of comfort. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 194 (+9 more)

Library Connections

• Life’s essence may reduce to the will to exist. #complicates (0.75) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 79

Broader Connections

• African religion answers ancestors’ concrete existential questions. #expands (0.55) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 161
• A place has a soul and an intelligence that seeks to heal itself #expands (0.40) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 192