"If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." ― Thomas Szasz Topic(s): Faith More From Thomas Szasz "Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility." "A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power." "No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious." More In Faith "My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear."― Anne Lamott "Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."― William Peter Blatty "I have great faith in the jury system."― Judge Mills Lane