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Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, If I should wake before I die. . . . Life can get away from you.

Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
Author
Pastor
Sociologist
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University Teacher
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Tiptoeing
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I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.
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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
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But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
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