“Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 148.

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British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834–1892

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“Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.”

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