Thought for the Week: What is Quakerism for?

Craig Barnett reflects on Quaker testimonies

by Craig Barnett 19th April 2013

One of the ways that early Friends differed most from modern Quakers is that they were able to say with great clarity and conviction just what the purpose of the Quaker Way is:  The main thing in religion is to keep the conscience pure to the Lord, to know the guide, to follow the guide, to receive from him the light whereby I am to walk; and not to take things for truths because others see them to be truths; but to wait till the spirit makes them manifest to me.  - Isaac Penington