Quotes by John Harvey Kellogg

About John Harvey Kellogg:

John Harvey Kellogg is best known for the invention of the breakfast cereal known as corn flakes with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg.
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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

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

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

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

John Harvey Kellogg

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

John Harvey Kellogg

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

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

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

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

I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.

John Harvey Kellogg

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

John Harvey Kellogg

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

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

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

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

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

Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.

John Harvey Kellogg

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

John Harvey Kellogg

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Harvey Kellogg
  • DescriptionAmerican physician
  • BornFebruary 26, 1852
  • DiedDecember 14, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysician; Nutritionist