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.

12/13/2025

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"In Him sit down, who is above the subtle foxes in their holes, and the fowls of the air in their nests; I say, sit down in Christ, who hath no place among them to lay his head; He is your rest. So in him is my love to you all."

Citation: George Fox, 1682
Cofounder of the Religious Society of Friends

12/09/2025

"My membership in the Religious Society of Friends has fueled my desire to act as a bridge of understanding and acceptance between Quakerism and persons of other faiths and persuasions. I aspire to live a faith clearly enough to make others recognize the similarities between their faith and mine... I choose to use my energy associating with and supporting other persons and movements who try to live out the Quaker Testimonies of Peace, Community, Equality, and Simplicity. It matters not whether these persons are members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Christian, or of any other faith." -Friend Judith Brown

11/30/2025

“The kingdom of God is not in words, nor in outward observations; but in being leavened into, and comprehending, the nature and power of life itself.”
-Friend Isaac Penington

11/23/2025

“Quaker silence is not an emptiness waiting to be filled by speech, but a fullness in which words fall away. It is not absence but presence — presence that cannot be contained in language.”
-Friend Rachel Muers

11/20/2025

"The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations."

-Friend William Penn

Pastor Preston Sudduth delivered a wonderful sermon today at the morning prayer service at St. George's Episcopal Church...
11/16/2025

Pastor Preston Sudduth delivered a wonderful sermon today at the morning prayer service at St. George's Episcopal Church. It was heartfelt, sincere, and clearly led by the Spirit, and it brought to mind these words by Friend George Fox, as recounted by Friend Margaret Fell.

"The Scriptures were the prophets’ words and Christ’s and the apostles’ words, and what as they spoke they enjoyed and possessed and had it from the Lord. Then what had any to do with the Scriptures, but as they came to the Spirit that gave them forth. You will say, Christ saith this, and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? Art thou a child of Light and hast walked in the Light, and what thou speakest is it inwardly from God?"

Thank you Pastor for continuing to receive us so warmly, for being a regular member of our silent meetings, and for humbly working as the Light guides within.

11/15/2025

"The primary function of these local meetings, these vital cells of our Quaker movement, is spiritual refreshment and the sustaining of souls in the meeting for worship. This spiritual refreshment, I shall assume, is the central feature of a local Quaker community. I know that at the highest moment of worship self is entirely out of conscious focus, and there is no thought of refreshing or equipping or fortifying the soul. The worshipper is so entirely in love with God that he is not calculating about returns. He forgets himself, loses himself, in his outpouring and upreach of love and adoration. But that forgetting and that losing of self is precisely the way to health and refreshment and restoration. There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself." - Friend Rufus Jones

11/15/2025

"Worship is the response of the human spirit to the presence of the divine and eternal, to the God who first seeks us. The sense of wonder and awe of the finite before the infinite leads naturally to thanksgiving and adoration.

Silent worship and the spoken word are both parts of Quaker ministry. The ministry of silence demands the faithful activity of every member in the meeting. As, together, we enter the depths of a living silence, the stillness of God, we find one another in ‘the things that are eternal’, upholding and strengthening one another."

Citation: Faith and Practice of Britain Yearly Meeting, 1967

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11/13/2025

"Simplicity is the name we give to our effort to free ourselves to give full attention to God's still, small voice: the sum of our efforts to subtract from our lives everything that competes with God for our attention and clear hearing." -Friend Lloyd Lee Wilson

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Stanley, VA
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