Quotes from Franz Rosenzweig

To have found God is not an end but in itself a beginning.

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

Jetzt kommt die Pointe aller Pointen, die mir der Herr im Schlaf verliehen hat.

All future events are merely a reproduction of the first moment of Love, giving birth to itself from an inner womb that continuously fertilizes itself. Love carries in itself its everlasting renewed beginning.

There is no act of love toward one's neighbor that falls into the void. Just because the act was realized blindly, it must appear somewhere as effect. Somewhere,