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.

"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 Old Jerusalem with her children grew out of date, and the New Jerusalem into request, the mother of the sons of the gospel day.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!

04/13/2026

"When the Lord God and his son Jesus Christ sent me forth into the world to preach his everlasting gospel and kingdom, I was glad that I was commanded to turn people to that inward light, spirit, and grace, by which all might know their salvation and their way to God; even that divine spirit which would lead them into all truth, and which I infallibly knew would never deceive any."

-Friend George Fox

04/07/2026

""I saw the state of those, both priests and people, who, in reading the scriptures, cry out much against Cain, Esau, Judas, and other wicked men of former times, mentioned in the holy scriptures; but do not see the nature of Cain, of Esau, of Judas, and those others, in themselves. These said, it was they, they, they, that were the bad people; putting it off from themselves; but when some of these came, with the light and spirit of Truth, to see into themselves, then they came to say I, I, I, it is I myself, that have been the Ishmael, the Esau, &c. For then they saw the nature of wild Ishmael in themselves; the nature of Cain, Easu, Corah, Balaam, and of the son of perdition in themselves, sitting about all that is called God in them."

-Friend George Fox

04/03/2026

"...the turning point in George Fox’s personal faith was the moment at which he became powerfully aware of the reality of Christ’s personal and transformative presence in the human heart, as ‘the Lord would teach his people himself’. Through obedience to Christ’s direct counsel within him, Fox claimed that he had come ‘up in spirit through the flaming sword into the paradise of God’, and ‘even into a state in Christ Jesus, that should never fall’. This endowed early Quakerism with its apocalyptic character, in the literal sense of ‘revelation’: divine truth was unveiled directly in the hearts of the Children of Light. Quakers expressed this authoritative presence within them through their denial of personal identity, and denunciation of their enemies. Fox was not writing as a systematic theologian, then, and neither did he locate a single place for the role of Christ. Rather, Christ was the lens through which one’s whole life should be viewed."

—Madeleine Pennington, Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment

04/02/2026

"Keep to the sense, feeling, and experience, and beware of the understanding, the imagining and conceiving mind. The mind cannot be useful to God, nor bring forth anything for God, until it be newly cast, and newly molded."

- Friend Isaac Penington

03/31/2026

“The following night, while still in a very uplifted frame of mind, though not under the influence of the dr*g… 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)

“Remove thy Iniquities by Repentance... then should thy light break out of obscurity, and the dew of Mercies shall fall ...
03/30/2026

“Remove thy Iniquities by Repentance... then should thy light break out of obscurity, and the dew of Mercies shall fall upon thee, and it should be unto thee as a Morning without Cloud…”

-Friend Edward Burrough

03/29/2026

"One day, when I had been walking solitarily abroad, and was come home, I was taken up in the love of God, so that I could not but admire the greatness of His love; and while l was in that condition, it was opened unto me by the eternal light and power, and I therein clearly saw that all was done and to be done in and by Christ, and how He conquers and destroys this tempter the devil, and all his works, and is atop of him; and that all these troubles were good for me, and temptations for the trial of my faith, which Christ had given me."

-Friend George Fox

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3392 Pine Grove Rd
Stanley, VA
22851

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