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.

"And when assembled, the great work of one and all ought to be to wait upon God, and returning out of their own thoughts...
06/01/2026

"And when assembled, the great work of one and all ought to be to wait upon God, and returning out of their own thoughts and imaginations, to feel the Lord’s presence ... As there can be nothing more opposite to the natural will and wisdom of man than this silent waiting upon God, so neither can it be obtained nor rightly comprehended by man but as he layeth down his own wisdom and will so as to be content to be thoroughly subject to God … And so from this principle of man’s being silent and not acting in the things of God of himself until thus acted by God’s Light and Grace in the heart, did naturally spring that manner of sitting silent together and waiting together upon the Lord. For many thus principled … each made it their work to retire inwardly to the measure of Grace in themselves, not only being silent as to words but even abstaining from all their own thoughts, imaginations and desires…"
-Friend Robert Barclay

05/31/2026

"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

"This which God hath placed in man, to witness for himself, and to guide man from evil unto good (in the pure breathings...
05/30/2026

"This which God hath placed in man, to witness for himself, and to guide man from evil unto good (in the pure breathings, quickenings, and shinings of it), this is the seed, which is freely bestowed on man, to spring up and remain in him, and to gather him out of himself, into itself."
- Friend Isaac Penington

"The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. He that makes this his care, will find it his crown at last...
05/28/2026

"The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. He that makes this his care, will find it his crown at last. And he that lives to live ever, never fears dying: nor can the means be terrible to him that heartily believes the end.
For though death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that’s recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave, being the evidence of things not seen.
And this is the comfort of the good, that the grave cannot hold them, and that they live as soon as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. Death, then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live, if we cannot bear to die."
- Friend William Penn

"Now, though I had great openings, yet great trouble and temptation came many times upon me; so that when it was day I w...
05/25/2026

"Now, though I had great openings, yet great trouble and temptation came many times upon me; so that when it was day I wished for night, and when it was night I wished for day; and by reason of the openings I had in my troubles, I could say as David said, 'Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.' When I had openings they answered one another and answered the Scriptures; for I had great openings of the Scriptures: and when I was in troubles, one trouble also answered to another."
- Friend George Fox

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05/21/2026

"Seek not ease in the flesh, no, not in the least; but take up the cross every day, in everything, till the earthly be slain; until the wisdom and strength of the flesh be wholly subdued, and then the wisdom and power of God will become natural."
- Friend Isaac Penington

05/14/2026

"From the beginning the Quaker Christian faith has had a universal dimension. George Fox saw the Light ‘shine through all’ and he identified it with the divine Light of Christ that ‘enlightens every man that comes into the world’ (John 1:9). He pointed out, as did William Penn in greater detail, that individuals who had lived before the Christian era or outside Christendom and had no knowledge of the Bible story, had responded to a divine principle within them. In these terms, all Quaker Christians are universalists. Obedience to the Light within, however that may be described, is the real test of faithful living."

- Friends Alastair Heron, Ralph Hetherington and Joseph Pickvance

05/10/2026

"To the soul that feeds upon the bread of life, the outward conventions of religion are no longer needful. Hid with Christ in God, there is for him but small place for outward rites, for all experience is a holy baptism, a perpetual supper with the Lord, and all life a sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This hidden life, this inward vision, this immediate and intimate union between the soul and God, this, as revealed in Jesus Christ, is the basis of Quaker faith."

John Wilhelm Rowntree

05/07/2026

"Art thou in the Darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will fill thee more, but stand still and act not, and wait in patience till Light arises out of Darkness to lead thee."
- Friend James Naylor

05/06/2026

"The central theme of Universalism is that spiritual enlightenment may be achieved by everyone everywhere. It may be experienced in the teachings of all the great religious systems or in the personal and private experiences of the individual seeker who may have no religion at all." - Friend Ralph Hetherington

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3392 Pine Grove Rd
Stanley, VA
22851

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