Noth­ing, I believe, can real­ly teach us the nature and mean­ing of inspi­ra­tion but per­son­al expe­ri­ence of it. That we may all have such expe­ri­ence if we will but attend to the divine influ­ences in our own hearts, is the car­di­nal doc­trine of Quakerism.

— Car­o­line Stephen