How do Friends perceive God?
Friends believe in a Divine source and that there is that of God in everyone. While individual Friends have differing concepts of God, Friends believe that a direct and unmediated experience of the Divine is open to everyone. Over the three and a half centuries of our history, Friends have used many names for the source of our faith among them God, the Inner or Inward Light, the Divine Principle, the Seed, the Christ Within, the Inward Teacher, Jesus, Holy Spirit … The names we use are appropriate to our experience. Some of us may use different names at different times, for our experiences vary throughout our lives.
