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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
Theologian
University Teacher
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Life
Tiptoeing
Safely
Wake
Praying
Reach
Dies
Death
Away

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