Walking With Jesus by Mary Winslow compiled by Debra Maffett

Avoid light, trifling professors of religion; their influence will be
as poison to your souls. I am convinced that much communion
with lukewarm professors does great injury to the believer. Oh,
avoid such! Light and trifling conversation acts as a poison to the
life of God in the soul. It grieves the Spirit, and He withdraws His
sensible influence.
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Slumbering saints and dead sinners compose most of the
congregations.
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How much of needless care and anxiety does unbelief cut out for
the tried believer in this wilderness world!
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If the religion of Christ does not make us happy, nothing else
will. But the happiness of the believer is very different from that
of the world. It arises from a sublimer source, and shuts out
unwholesome levity and mirth. The highest state of enjoyment
here below, which can arise from a believing view of Him who
was pierced for our sins and wounded for our transgressions, will
ever be accompanied with the humble and contrite heart; a deep
sense of our rebellion before conversion, and of our ingratitude
and unprofitableness since. So here is joy, yet mixed with sorrow.
This is happiness the world knows nothing of. Be assured I am
happy, and do rejoice in God, while I often have occasion to sigh
at what I feel within, and at what I behold around me.
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