“A lesser light pointing to a greater light? Why would anyone need a flashlight to find the sun?”

— Ray Pitts

“She went to the very sources that this cultic movement had condemned as Babylon, gathered the best spiritual food she could find.”

— Robert Brinsmead, Ph.D.

“If any prophet teaches the truth, yet does not practice what he teaches, he is a false prophet.”

— Didache 11:10

“The way your mother’s writings have been handled and the false impressions concerning them have brought great perplexity and trial to me.”

— W.W. Prescott, Letter to Willie White

“Ellen White demonstrated many behaviors… both narcissistic personality disorder and a high-functioning sociopath.”

— Steve Daily, Ellen G. White: A Psychobiography

“It is not right that the spirit of prophecy is the only safe interpreter of the Bible. That is positively dangerous.”

— A.G. Daniells, SDA General Conference Corporate President

“There is an astonishing similarity between Mrs. White’s ‘visions’ and a type of seizure called ‘psychomotor’ or ‘partial-complex’ seizure.”

— Delbert H. Hodder, M.D., Evangelica

“When you look at her visions, hallucinations, depression and loss of speech, if she weren’t a religious leader, you would have had her in therapy.”

— Ronald Numbers, Washington Post

“Only the future life will tell us how many men have been destroyed by Church leaders because they could not believe the White lie.”

— Walter T. Rea, author of The White Lie

“Once Adventist worship grew sedate, Ellen’s trances ceased, and her early visions acquired a miraculous aura.”

— Ronald Graybill, Ph.D., Associate Director, White Estate

“Evidence shows that the record of Ellen White’s accomplishments have been greatly exaggerated.”

— Edmund Rogol, You and I, and Ellen White

“Her later visions were materially different from former ones, and they were suppressed.”

— Isaac Wellcome, History of the Second Advent Message
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