Max Scheler Quote

When we are told, in the same tone, that these people will be rewarded in heaven for their distress, and that heaven is the exact reverse of the earthly order (the first shall be last), we distinctly feel how the ressentiment-laden man transfers to God the vengeance he himself cannot wreak on the great. In this way, he can satisfy his revenge at least in imagination, with the aid of an other-worldly mechanism of rewards and punishments.

L. Coser, trans. (1961), p. 97 - Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912)