Quaker Meeting

Quaker Meeting may refer to:

  • Monthly meeting (or Area meeting in the UK), the basic organisational unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
  • Preparative meeting (or Preparatory meeting; Local meeting in the UK), a common basic local worship group in the Religious Society of Friends
  • Meeting for worship, a Quaker religious practice somewhat akin to a church service
  • Quaker Meeting (child's game), a children's game
  • Quaker Meeting House, where Quaker Meetings for worship often take place

Famous quotes containing the words quaker and/or meeting:

    “this old Quaker graveyard where the bones
    Cry out in the long night for the hurt beast
    Bobbing by Ahab’s whaleboats in the East.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Passing through here in 1795, Bishop Asbury commented, ‘The country improves in cultivation, wickedness, mills, and stills.’ Five years later, he held a meeting in the neighborhood and remarked that he thought most of the congregation had come to look at his wig.”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)