As members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), we try to put our faith into practice. We start with an understanding that there is ‘that of God in everyone’. Every human being is unique and precious. This has led us to a commitment to peace, equality, justice, simplicity and truth. These values, or testimonies, underpin Quaker thinking and action. Quakerism is a way of living – an active pursuit of peace and justice.
Quakerism has no creeds or commandments. True fulfilment comes from attempting to live life in the spirit of love, truth and peace. It’s up to each of us to interpret what or who God is.
This doesn’t mean we live with our heads in the clouds. We know and feel the often unjust and painful world we live in. But our worship leads us to recognise and foster a vision of a just and peaceful world. We strive to let our lives speak in an attempt to build that world in the ways we live and act.
Taken from - 'A Quaker view on…'
If you look to Quakers for a definitive belief system you are going to be disappointed. We have learned to trust the promptings of love and truth in our hearts as the leadings of God. We base our lives on an outpouring of impulses and ideas that is different for each person, and we only believe what we have experienced.
Quakers today…share the impulse to work for social and spiritual change, and to help build a society inspired by the promptings of love and truth in every heart.
“Heaven is here now. We make it. It is something that comes out of everyday life.”
Taken from: Geoffrey Durham – 'What do Quakers Believe?'
“Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another; but praying one for another, and helping one another up with a tender hand.”
Isaac Pennington, 1667
From: Quaker Faith And Practice 10.01