Quaker Focus of the Month
"That of God in Everyone"
"The Light within"

Do you live in the spirit of love and truth and peace, answering to that same spirit everyone? Do you reach for the best that is within yourself?


Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it other people. --Marian Wright Edelman

There is principle, which is pure, place in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from anywhere the heart stands in perfect sincerity. --John Woolman

Though all of us are attracted to physical beauty, cleverness, wittiness, and intelligence, the Quaker affirmation that there is that of God in each person asserts that being worthy of respect does not depend on possessing attractive qualities or skills. Until we can respect another person without justification except that he or she is a child of God, it is not really respect. --Paul Lacey

The Light Within is the fundamental and immediate experience for Friends. It is that which guides each of us in our everyday lives and brings us together as a community of faith. It is, most importantly, our direct and unmediated experience of the Divine.
--Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice