A QUAKER & HIS MULE
One day a farmer, who was a Quaker, was having trouble with his mule. He was trying to plow his field and the mule was being unusually stubborn. He wouldn’t move. So the Quaker decided to talk to him “reasonably.” He said, “Thou knowest I am a Quaker. Thou knowest I can’t curse thee. Thou knowest I can’t whip thee. What thou does not know is that I can sell thee to my neighbor down the road. He is no Quaker, and he can beat the living daylights out of thee.” We all have faced situations in which we feel like that Quaker. From Nehemiah: Learning to Lead, by Boice
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