But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false. John Harvey Kellogg More Quotes by John Harvey Kellogg More Quotes From John Harvey Kellogg All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made. John Harvey Kellogg simple science hands I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death. John Harvey Kellogg states mind believe I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand. John Harvey Kellogg men believe hands Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it. John Harvey Kellogg hearing-things roots people To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases. John Harvey Kellogg men science death Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god. John Harvey Kellogg progress broken science I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said. John Harvey Kellogg agreement want believe Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man. John Harvey Kellogg different sea men If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work. John Harvey Kellogg devil use lord Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say firmly and without quibble that personal abuse lies at the root of much of the feebleness, paleness, nervousness and good-for-nothingness of the entire community? John Harvey Kellogg roots mother lying Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in so many ways and so universally as does tobacco. Some drugs offer a small degree of compensation for the evil effects which they produce; but tobacco has not a single redeeming feature and gives nothing in return. John Harvey Kellogg evil giving science When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion. John Harvey Kellogg year see waiting book The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family. John Harvey Kellogg own thought family children I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church. John Harvey Kellogg i-am good think church These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false. John Harvey Kellogg false against me conversation Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me. John Harvey Kellogg help down go me Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says. John Harvey Kellogg product i-am anything brother