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.

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

05/02/2026

"Whatever the spirit of man has invented or imitated is not the thing itself, is not the true worship. For the true worship is only and continually in the Spirit and never out of the Spirit. The true praying is in the Spirit; the true singing, in the Spirit; the true preaching, in the Spirit: whatsoever is out of it is of antichrist in man. Now therefore give up all your religion, your knowledge, your worship, your practices, which are outside of the Spirit. Return unto the Lord, and wait for his raising of that seed in you which once began to spring, but is now slain, and lies in death and captivity under all these."

-Friend Isaac Penington

04/27/2026

"And I cried to the Lord, saying, ‘Why should I be thus, seeing I was never addicted to commit those evils?’ And the Lord answered that it was needful I should have a sense of all conditions, how else should I speak to all conditions; and in this I saw the infinite love of God. I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. And in that also I saw the infinite love of God; and I had great openings.”

-Friend George Fox

04/23/2026

"My desire after the Lord grew stronger, and zeal in the pure knowledge of God, and of Christ alone, without the help of any man, book, or writing. For though I read the Scriptures that spoke of Christ and of God, yet I knew Him not, but by revelation, as He who hath the key did open, and as the Father of Life drew me to His Son by His Spirit. Then the Lord gently led me along, and let me see His love, which was endless and eternal, surpassing all the knowledge that men have in the natural state, or can obtain from history or books; and that love let me see myself, as I was without Him. "
- Friend George Fox

04/22/2026

"A man must know the Spirit, come to the Spirit, be joined to, and be in union with the Spirit, before he can have the true understanding of the Scriptures. The Scriptures indeed are the words of God, or various expressions of his mind. Now the man who searches these before he has the Spirit cannot know the truth, but can only guess and imagine. And it is from here that so many sects and denominations are sprung up in the world, according to the variety of their imaginations. One sort of men cry, ‘This is the way, this is the truth, this is the church, this is the worship.’ Another sort cry, ‘That is not it; that is superstition and error; but this is it!’ And so a third and fourth, etc. It is the same with the Scriptures. One says this is the meaning; another says it is not so, but this is the meaning. They let their own reasonings and imaginations loose, and there is no foundation of certainty. But if they had waited for the Spirit to begin with, and gone on no further than he opened to them, all these doubts and dissensions would have been choked... He that begins with the Spirit of God, giving himself up to the light which comes from him, comes to true union with God, and to the experience of the life. This one finds a true growth and knowledge of the Spirit of God, whereby he comes to know and understand the Scriptures, which came from the same Spirit."

-Friend Isaac Penington

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than t...
04/20/2026

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

"Now, the poor in spirit, the meek, the true mourners, the hungry and thirsty after righteousness, the peace-makers, the...
04/18/2026

"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

04/14/2026

"There are other special locations beyond the meeting-house, where I have this same sense of belonging to all others. These are where it is evident that those who have preceded me have themselves reached out to that which is universal and divine. These sites are those of the great cathedrals of Christianity, the Acropolis of the pagan Greeks, the olive tree under whose branches Socrates taught, the carefully currycombed Hindu ashram of Gandhi and the pre-Celt Stonehenge. I cannot believe since I feel such unity with those who created these places special to their faith, that their God and my God are not one and the same. We differ only in our interpretation and cultural understanding, not in grace."

-Friend Sally Rickerman

04/14/2026

There will be no meeting tonight, Tuesday, April 14th. Have a wonderful week!

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3392 Pine Grove Rd
Stanley, VA
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