A Quote by Thomas Szasz

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

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God Praying Schizophrenia Talk Talks

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Thomas Szasz
American - Psychologist
April 15, 1920 - September 8, 2012

When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

Lily Tomlin

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

Lily Tomlin

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

Jane Wagner

I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to.... The God I'm praying to is neither male nor female. My God is the one who exists apart from all of men's agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.

Brunonia Barry

There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people usually talk, and the God who talks to us. The god we learn to fear, and the God who speaks to us of mercy. The god who is somewhere up on high, and the God who is here in our daily lives. The god who demands punishment, and the God who forgives us our trespasses. The god who threatens us with the torments of Hell, and the God who shows us the true path. There are two gods. A god who casts us off because of our sins, and a God who calls to us with His love.

Paulo Coelho

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

Henry Blackaby

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

Dwight L. Moody

I'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the God who made the mountains and who can move them if necessary. I'm praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked. I'm praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.

Bill Hybels

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.

H. Emilie Cady

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

Oswald Chambers

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.

Peter J. Carroll

If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.

Robert Fulghum

It is important for Christians to spend time praying with or in the spirit-that is, praying in tongues. The Bible says, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God"