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:
“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Not thou nor thy religion dost controule,
The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule,
But thou would’st have that love thy selfe: As thou
Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now,
Thou lov’st not, till from loving more, thou free
My soule: Who ever gives, takes libertie:
O, if thou car’st not whom I love
Alas, thou lov’st not mee.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador’s chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)