Religion
- John Jones (martyr) (died 1598), Welsh saint
- John Jones (Benedictine) (1575–1635), Welsh monk
- John Jones (clergyman and physician) (1644/5–1709), Welsh cleric, inventor and physician
- John Jones (Dean of Bangor) (1650–1727), Dean of Bangor Cathedral
- John Jones (controversialist) (1700–1770), Welsh clergyman
- John Jones (Unitarian) (c. 1766–1827), Welsh minister, critic, tutor and lexicographer
- John Jones (literary patron) (1773–1853), Welsh priest, scholar and literary patron
- John Elias (born John Jones, 1774–1841), Welsh preacher
- John Jones (Archdeacon of Merioneth) (1775–1834), Welsh priest and writer
- Llef o'r Nant (pseudonym of John Jones, 1782/87–1863), Welsh priest and antiquarian
- John Jones, Talysarn (1796–1857), Welsh preacher
- John Taylor Jones (1802–1851), Protestant missionary to Siam, now Thailand
- John Hugh Jones (1843–1910), Welsh Roman Catholic priest
- John Islan Jones (1874–1968), Welsh Unitarian minister and writer
- John Jones (bishop) (1904–1956), Welsh Anglican missionary and Bishop of Bangor
- John Jones (Archdeacon of St Asaph) (1905–1996), Welsh Anglican archdeacon
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Religion is an attempt to get an irrefragably safe investment, and this cannot be got, no matter how low the interest, which in the case of religion is about as low as it can be.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“In the latter part of the seventeenth century, according to the historian of Dunstable, “Towns were directed to erect ‘a cage’ near the meeting-house, and in this all offenders against the sanctity of the Sabbath were confined.” Society has relaxed a little from its strictness, one would say, but I presume that there is not less religion than formerly. If the ligature is found to be loosened in one part, it is only drawn the tighter in another.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.”
—C.S. (Clive Staples)