Beautiful People<\/b><\/p>\n
Joyce Brothers, well-known and popular psychologist, points out in Better than Ever that \u201cbeautiful people have beautiful personalities \u2026We consistently judge them to be more sensitive, kind, intelligent, interesting, sociable, and exciting than less attractive people.\u201d Dr. Brothers goes on to speak of a study made in a school among kindergartners and teachers regarding the people to whom they were most often attracted: \u201cThey (the children) picked the most attractive children as their favorites. Their teachers did likewise, and considered the less attractive children more likely to be troublemakers.\u201d She continues, \u201cWhen we grow up, for both men and women, higher salary levels and greater advancement have a high correlation with pleasant looks, at all ages and in all fields.\u201d<\/p>\n
Men in Midlife Crisis, Jim Conway, p. 84<\/p>\n
Skin<\/b><\/p>\n
My wife was grading a science test at home that she had given to her elementary-school class and was reading some of the results to me. The subject was \u201cThe Human Body,\u201d and the first question was: \u201cName one of the major functions of the skin.\u201d<\/p>\n
One child wrote: \u201cTo keep people who look at you from throwing up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contributed by Sam Jarrett, Reader\u2019s Digest<\/p>\n
Radiant Countenance<\/b><\/p>\n
The renowned Quaker scholar Rufus Jones was speaking of the importance of having a radiant countenance. After his address, a woman \u201cwith an almost unbelievably plain face\u201d came up and asked him what he would do if he had a face like hers.<\/p>\n
He replied, \u201cWhile I have troubles of my own of that kind, I\u2019ve discovered that if you light it up from within, any old face you have is good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Our Daily Bread, December 7, 1992<\/p>\n
Birthmark<\/b><\/p>\n
Charles William Eliot (1834\u20131926), former president of Harvard University, had a birthmark on his face that bothered him greatly. As a young man, he was told that surgeons could do nothing to remove it. Someone described that moment as \u201cthe dark hour of his soul.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eliot\u2019s mother gave him this helpful advice: \u201cMy son, it is not possible for you to get rid of that hardship\u2026But it is possible for you, with God\u2019s help, to grow a mind and soul so big that people will forget to look at your face.\u201d<\/p>\n
Our Daily Bread, June 15, 1992<\/p>\n
Tractor<\/b><\/p>\n
An ad appeared in a newspaper that read: \u201cFarmer wants to marry woman, 35, with tractor. Send picture of tractor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
God\u2019s Preference<\/b><\/p>\n
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he made so many of them. – A. Lincoln<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
The Bigger the Better<\/b><\/p>\n
It was absolutely amazing. I was in West Africa\u2014Timbuktu to be exact\u2014and the missionaries were telling me that in that culture the larger the women were the more beautiful they were thought to be. In fact, a young missionary who had a small, trim wife said that the nationals had told him she was a bad reflection on him\u2014he obviously was not providing well enough for her. A proverb in that part of Africa says that if your wife is on a camel and the camel cannot stand up, your wife is truly beautiful.<\/p>\n
Fan The Flame, J. Stowell, Moody, 1986, p. 119<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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