Ellen G. White's Crazy Quotes
Robert K. Sanders

When I come across EGW's crazy quotes doing research, it was hard to believe that I accepted this garbage for 37 years. When I read them now I have a good laugh. I hope you see the humor in them also.

1. Excessive Seeing is a sin: "Excessive indulgence in eating, drinking, sleeping, or SEEING, is sin." -- Counsels on Diet and Foods, page 141, written in 1880.
   
   I guess EGW did not want her help "seeing" her excessive indulgence in eating meat, oysters, drinking wine, and stealing material for her books from uninspired authors.
    

2.  Piano Tuners deal with insanity: In many cases I have advised out-of-door work for piano tuners, telling them that unless they changed their business, they would have to deal with insanity. -Letter 104, 1901.
   
   I wonder how many piano tuners tried to tune pianos out-of-doors in the winter so they would not go insane? Really!! Perhaps wearing gloves would help keep them from going insane! How many piano tuners have gone insane? (Smile!)
    

3. Having an upset stomach will make infidels: Deranged stomachs have made infidels. You can be a preacher of righteousness in this respect. The greatness of the work that may be accomplished in the lines of health reform has not been comprehended or appreciated. There is religion in the making of good bread. I hope you will consider these things, and realize that your work is of consequence. Manuscript Releases Volume Fourteen, page 342, paragraph 2.
   
   Would taking Pepto-Bismo after being gassed up eating SDA Veggie meat keep you from becoming infidels? And I always thought an infidel was a person that rejected Christ or was not a Christian not caused by a deranged stomach.
    
4.  Tea and coffee drinking loosens the tongue: When these tea and coffee users meet together for social entertainment, the effects of their pernicious habit are manifest. All partake freely of the favorite beverages, and as the stimulating influence is felt, their tongues are loosened, and they begin the wicked work of talking against others. -- Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 423.
   
   SDAs must drink a lot of coffee and tea in secret.  I remember some church members back-stabbing their fellow church members when they get together in their clicks. If you find this going on in your church, suggest that they lay off the coffee and tea!
    

5. Showing face and head are immodest: I was shown that the people of God should not imitate the fashions of the  world... I was pointed back to God's ancient people,  and was led to compare their apparel with the mode of dress in these last days. What a difference! What a change! Then the women  were not so bold as now. WHEN THEY WENT IN PUBLIC, THEY COVERED THEIR FACES WITH A VAIL. In these last days, fashions are shameful and immodest...The small bonnets, exposing the face and head, show a lack of modesty...The inhabitants are growing more and more corrupt...Testimonies Volume 1, pp. 188; 189.
   
   EGW would have supported the Muslim women wearing veils and burquas. EGW sure did not have her faced covered, so she was a bare faced hypocrite. See her pictures that she claimed were idols.  http://www.truthorfables.com/EGW_Picture_Idols.htm
    

6. Angels need a gold card to get in and out of heaven: There is perfect order and harmony in the Holy City. All the angels that are commissioned to visit the earth hold a golden card, which they present to the angels at the gates of the city as they pass in and out. Early Writings (1882), page 39. (Do angels really need a gold ID card to get in and out of heaven? Can evil angels deceive the loyal angels to get into heaven? Why did God withhold this important piece of information from Christians for over 2000 years?)
    
7. Women should not allow wet-nurses to suckle their babies or the babies will take on the temper and temperament of the nurse. A stranger performs the duties of the mother and gives from her breast the food to sustain life. Nor is this all. She also imparts her temper and her temperament to the nursing child. The child's life is linked to hers. If the hireling is a coarse type of woman, passionate, and unreasonable; if she is not careful in her morals, the nursling will be, in all probability, of the same, or a similar type. The same coarse quality of blood, coursing in the veins of the hireling nurse, is in that of the child. The Health Reformer, September 1, 1871, paragraph 7.

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