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:
“No, no; Religion is a Spring
That from some secret, golden Mine
Derives her birth, and thence doth bring
Cordials in every drop, and Wine;”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)
“If ... we admit a divinity, why not divine worship? and if worship, why not religion to teach this worship? and if a religion, why not the Christian, if a better cannot be assigned, and it be already established by the laws of our country, and handed down to us from our forefathers?”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)
“Where beauty is worshipped for beauty’s sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)