Religion
- John Brown (Covenanter) (1627–1685), Scottish Protestant martyr
- John Brown (essayist) (1715–1766), English clergyman
- John Brown (theologian) (1722–1787), Scottish clergyman and Biblical commentator
- John Brown (Vicar of St Mary's, Leicester) (died 1845), eloquent British evangelical preacher
- John Brown (minister) (1784–1858), Scottish clergyman and writer
- John Newton Brown (1803–1868), Baptist teacher, minister and publisher
- John Brown (writer) (1830–1922), Doctor of Divinity, pastor of Bunyan's Chapel, and author of many works of theology and church history
- John Henry Hobart Brown (1831–1888), Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac
- John Brown (bishop) (born 1930), Anglican bishop
- John Brown (Mormon pioneer) (1820–1897)
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Those to whom God has imparted religion by feeling of the heart are very fortunate and are rightly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give it by feeling of the heart—without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words of the Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint’s picture.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)