Max Scheler - God Quotes

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The highest and ultimate personality values are declared to be independent of contrasts like rich and poor, healthy and sick, etc. The world had become accustomed to considering the social hierarchy, based on status, wealth, vital strength, and power, as an exact image of the ultimate values of morality and personality. The only way to disclose the discovery of anew and higher sphere of being and life, of the kingdom of God whose order is independent of that worldly and vital hierarchy, was to stress the vanity of the old values in this higher order.

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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.

Max Scheler

The kingdom of God has become the other world, which stands mechanically beside this world —an opposition unknown to the strongest periods of Christianity.

Max Scheler