Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies. John Harvey Kellogg More Quotes by John Harvey Kellogg More Quotes From John Harvey Kellogg I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath. John Harvey Kellogg sabbath i-believe believe When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal! John Harvey Kellogg disease vegetarianism worry A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed. John Harvey Kellogg pain successful boys The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing. John Harvey Kellogg creative power life The breakfast food idea made its appearance in a little third-story room on the corner of 28th Street and Third Avenue, New York City....My cooking facilities were very limited, making it very difficult to prepare cereals. It often occurred to me that it should be possible to purchase cereals at groceries already cooked and ready to eat, and I considered different ways in which this might be done. John Harvey Kellogg breakfast-food new-york ideas A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought. John Harvey Kellogg coffee food men All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar. John Harvey Kellogg smell bird science I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. John Harvey Kellogg battle church thinking Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger. John Harvey Kellogg turkeys food science The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious. John Harvey Kellogg notorious influence coffee Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of evidence has begun and when the final verdict is rendered, it will appear that tobacco is evil and only evil; that as a drug it is far more deadly than alcohol, killing in a dose a thousand times smaller, and that it does not possess a single one of the quasi merits of alcohol. John Harvey Kellogg alcohol evil science The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery. John Harvey Kellogg slavery conspiracy smoking A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food. John Harvey Kellogg vegetarianism sheep lying You cannot work with men who won't work with you. John Harvey Kellogg men My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. John Harvey Kellogg honesty time philosophy Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is! John Harvey Kellogg eye men two There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do John Harvey Kellogg christian numbers believe It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage. John Harvey Kellogg food water science Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference. John Harvey Kellogg financial home europe 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
