Charles Reynolds Brown (1862–1950) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. He wrote a column for the Congregationalist Church’s bulletin for seven years and published thirty-nine books. His most famous works include Two Parables (1898,) The Main Points (1899,) The Modern Man’s Religion (1911,) and The Quest of Life and Other Addresses (1913.)
Born in Bethany, West Virginia, Brown graduated at the University of Iowa in 1883 and studied theology at Boston University. After working as a lecturer at Stanford, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia universities, he served as the pastor of the First Congregational Church at Oakland, California, 1896–1911. He then served as the Dean of the Yale Divinity School for seventeen years.
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The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
—Charles Reynolds Brown
Topics: Intelligence, Cynicism
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
—Charles Reynolds Brown
Topics: Character, Being Ourselves, Self-respect
We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.
—Charles Reynolds Brown
Topics: Work
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