Luray Friends Meeting

Luray Friends Meeting An unprogrammed meeting for worship belonging to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

All are welcome to experience the Inner Light with us at our weekly meetings. We are part of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting and the Friends General Conference.

08/19/2026

“… together we are the Body of Christ. And being the Body of Christ leads me to an understanding of advaita/non-duality/unity that is a core belief—expressed in myriad ways—of so many spiritual traditions: Everything is in God, and God is in everything.” - Friend Mary Linda McKinney

"There is a universal love, a universal light, a universal spirit, which is God.""The gospel is the Light; the gospel is...
08/16/2026

"There is a universal love, a universal light, a universal spirit, which is God."
"The gospel is the Light; the gospel is the Cross; the gospel is the Seed; the gospel is the Truth; the gospel is Christ."
- Friend George Fox

"…the name of Christ consists not of letters and syllables, but in righteousness, mercy and judgment, &c., which name none can know but by the Light of the World…" - Friend James Nayler

"This is the Word, Light, Life, Truth, and Love in the language of John and 'the Spirit' and 'the Christ in you' of Paul." - Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

"The Quakers have different names for their Inward Teacher, including: Lord, Spirit, Inner Light, Inward Christ, Jesus Christ. These names involve more than language... Quakers believe that this Inward Teacher is Christ himself." - Britain Quaker Faith and Practice

"And the deepest thing about man is the fact that he is self-conscious spirit - made in the image of the divine Spirit - in reality unsundered from God as the stream is unsundered from the fountain which is its source, and that true 'life' begins when man finds that eternal Reality to which he 'belongs.' This inward junction of the soul with God, Fox and the Quakers after him called 'the Light within,' 'the seed of God,' 'something of God in man.' If it is true, it is universally true." - Friend Rufus Jones

08/16/2026

"The Light is universal, reaching all men everywhere... It is not a unique possession of Christians or Quakers, but a gift to all mankind." -Friend Howard Brinton

08/15/2026

"The social mission is, and must always be, a great feature of real Christianity, only it must not take the place of the primary function which is revealing God." - Friend Rufus Jones

08/13/2026

“The following night, while still in a very uplifted frame of mind, though not under the influence of the drug… I felt that God was calling me to make a commitment, and I said ‘Yes’... If that One called me to a deeper commitment - I was extravagantly ‘high’ and I had no idea what he was getting at - what could I say but ‘Yes’? I don't know how many times I said it. At the first ‘Yes’ something like a steel rapier went through the center of my chest and pinned me. I said it over and over again to a piercing rain of questions, the same question, addressed to every pocket of my consciousness. The Other did not speak English, but he made himself understood; he said to every call: ‘Receive your Lord.’ And I said ‘Yes’ until I was yessed out. Then I said ‘Christ’... And knew simultaneously that it was Jesus Christ to whom I was committing myself. I met Him as a living person, the same One who lived in Galilee and was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and is still alive and eternal. His life and mine became United in a way that I lack metaphysical categories to explain… I said ‘Christ’ several more times, for practice. It seemed to involve jaw muscles not normally used. This experience was an utter surprise to me. It had never before occurred to me that I needed to be converted or was ever likely to be. It threw me into an ecstatic state such as I have never experienced in such intensity off [psychedelics] (though it was not quite of the same quality as [them]) which lasted for about three weeks, during which I spent several sleepless nights through sheer elation. This period of excitement passed, but Christ didn't go away…”
-Friend Lisa Bieberman (Kuenning)

08/13/2026

"I was sent to turn people from darkness to the light, that they might receive Christ Jesus; for to as many as should receive him in his light, I saw he would give power to become the sons of God ; which I had obtained by receiving Christ. I was to direct people to the spirit, that gave forth the scriptures, by which they might be led into all truth, and so up to Christ and God, as those had been who gave them forth. I was to turn them to the grace of God, and to the truth in the heart, which came by Jesus; that by this grace they might be taught, which would bring them salvation, that their hearts might be established by it, their words might be seasoned, and all might come to know their salvation nigh. For I saw that Christ had died for all men, was a propitiation for all, and had enlightened all men and women with his divine and saving light; and that none could be true believers, but those that believed in it. I saw that the grace of God, which brings salvation, had appeared to all men, and that the manifestation of the spirit of God was given to every man, to profit withal." - Friend George Fox

08/12/2026

Thomas Kelly (1893-January 17, 1941) was an American Quaker educato...

08/06/2026

"As the mind was moved by an inward principle to love God as an invisible, incomprehensible Being, by the same principle it was moved to love him in all his manifestations in the visible world.”
- Friend John Woolman

08/05/2026

"Now, the poor in spirit, the meek, the true mourners, the hungry and thirsty after righteousness, the peace-makers, the pure in heart, the merciful, and the persecuted, came more especially in remembrance before the Lord, and were sought out and blessed by Israel’s true Shepherd. Old Jerusalem with her children grew out of date, and the New Jerusalem into request, the mother of the sons of the gospel day. Wherefore no more at Old Jerusalem, nor at the mountain of Samaria, will God be worshipped, above other places; for, behold, he is declared and preached a Spirit, and he will be known as such, and worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth. He will come nearer than of old time, and he will write his law in the heart, and put his fear and Spirit in the inward parts, according to his promise. Then signs, types, and shadows flew away, the day having discovered their insufficiency in not reaching to the inside of the cup, to the cleansing of the conscience; and all elementary services were expired in and by Him that is the substance of all."

- Friend William Penn

08/03/2026

"I was in a poor, low condition, when the Lord formerly visited me. I was as lost, as undone, as miserable as any. Whatever knowledge, whatever life, whatever precious virtue I then received was from God’s grace; but it was still his own, and I found that he could call for it at his pleasure. And surely, he who has received from the fountain ought to trust and to give back again to the fountain when he calls for it, and then to remain empty, naked, desolate, until he be again freely visited. This is a hard lesson, who can learn it? Who can trust his life to the fountain and lie open to whatever follows? Yet this did the Lord require of me. And since my heart was not willing to part with my life, but rather strove to retain it and to grow in this first experience of grace unto perfection, he broke it after an unutterable manner, and brought such misery and desolation upon me as I could not possibly have suspected. And now he is teaching me to live more fully upon his grace, or rather upon the spring, where I am nothing, where I can be nothing forever, but he is and will be what he will be, and when he will be. And now nothing in me can be satisfied with him, except what is of him, and lives in him. And here all that I have known, or formerly tasted of him, springs up again at his pleasure; and I drink of the old wine, and also of the new, but I have nothing at my own disposal. And when I cling to anything, or seek to be anything, I lose the spring, and am corrected for my backsliding and adultery of spirit. But then I am again visited with fresh love, and the springing up of fresh power and life, and fresh visitations of the rich mercy and grace which the everlasting fountain naturally opens in its own. The pearl is exceedingly rich, the treasure of life unutterable. He that will possess it must sell all for it, even all his lusts and corruptions, indeed all the riches of his nature (the best of his will, the best of his wisdom most refined). Not only this, but all the riches of his spirit, all that he has held or can hold outside of the life. Then, when he is poor in spirit, and has nothing in himself but emptiness, nothing so much as to receive or retain the life except what is formed, grows up in, and is preserved in the life, according to its own mere will and good pleasure, then only is he fit to be comprehended and brought forth in the eternal spring. Perfectly happy is he who is perfectly possessed by the spring; yet he is not without a proportion of blessedness also who is mourning after it and traveling towards it. This can never be attained by the natural part retaining the letter of any spiritual revelation or knowledge; but only by beginning in the eternal virtue, abiding in it, and traveling from death to death, and from life to life, until all be slain which is to die and perish in the way, and all be raised and perfected which is to receive and live in the kingdom and crown of life forever. This crown the Lord lays before all to run after, but none but the spiritual seed (begotten of and abiding in the Spirit) can obtain it." -Friend Isaac Penington

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