Nature of God

Quaker understanding of God's nature reflects the movement's internal diversity. Evangelical Quakers affirm the classical attributes of God—omnipotence, omniscience, eternality, and personhood—and teach that God is knowable through the witness of the Holy Spirit. The Inner Light is understood as the active divine presence reaching into human hearts and consciences.

Liberal Quakers often hold a more open understanding of the divine, sometimes emphasizing divine presence as a universal spiritual reality rather than a personal being, or using language of the sacred, the holy, or ultimate reality. Some engage with process theology or other contemporary theological frameworks. The unifying Quaker principle remains that God (however understood) can be known through direct experience rather than primarily through intellectual assent to dogma.