The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.

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.

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

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?

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.

To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

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.

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.

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.

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