Definition of "light within" []

• A divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The commission which he gave to Paul the apostle, when he sent him to preach the gospel, was, "To open the eyes of men, and to turn them from darkness to light," Acts xxvi. 18; -- not to a light within them; for internal light is the eye or seeing of the soul, but the darkness was such as consisted in their blindness, in not having their eyes open:"
• "Every believer hath a light within him, not guiding him to despise and slight, but to prize and walk by the light without him; the word commands him to walk in the light, and the light directs him to walk according to the word."
• "He could make out the green light within the Plexiglass nose."