Religion
- John Smith (bishop) (died 1479), bishop of Llandaff, 1476–1479
- John Smith (Platonist) (1618–1652), one of the founders of the Cambridge Platonists
- John Smith (Unitarian) (fl. 1648–1727), Unitarian writer
- John Smith (uncle of Joseph Smith) (1781–1854), Presiding Patriarch and member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- John Smith (clergyman) (1784–1868), early Restoration Movement leader
- John Smith (missionary) (1790–1824), English missionary in Demerara
- John Smith (Revivalist), (1794-1831), English Methodist minister known as "The Revivalist"
- John Smith (nephew of Joseph Smith) (1832–1911), Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- John Henry Smith (1848–1911), apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- John Taylor Smith (1860–1938), Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone
- John Smith (Archdeacon of Wiltshire) (1933–2000), Anglican priest
- John Mortimer Smith (born 1935), American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
- John Smith (evangelist), Australian founder of God's Squad motorcycle club
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“I told him that Goldsmith had said,... “As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest.” I regretted this loose way of talking. JOHNSON. Sir, he knows nothing; he has made up his mind about nothing.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“There is more religion in men’s science than there is science in their religion.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)