Religion
- William White (Bishop of Pennsylvania) (1748–1836), Episcopal bishop in America, Presiding Bishop and Chaplain of Congress
- William C. White (1854–1937), son of Seventh-day Adventist Church founder Ellen G. White
- William White (bishop of Newfoundland) (1865–1943), Anglican bishop in Canada
- William White (Bishop of Honan) (1873–1960), Anglican bishop in China
- William A. White (1874–1936), American-Canadian Baptist minister, and only Black military chaplain in the British Empire during World War I
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“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
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