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Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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Comfort Grows Steps
When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
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Empowering Kids Risk
Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
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Answers Empowering Simple
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Boys Life Modern Young
As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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Grows Risk Society Terrified
You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Disaster Expectations Recipes
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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Alive Guy Survivor
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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Challenges Made Want
Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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Hurt Pain Running
The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
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Children Job Religious
Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it’s really going to hold them back if they don’t.
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Boys Gay Thinking
I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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Broken Cameras Snakes
Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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Inspire People Reckless
There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Climbing Heart Running
I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Down People Sitting Sweat
That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn’t about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it’s about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
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Happy Inspire Muscle Question Really Stuff
Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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Being Faith Personal Real
One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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Brave Fear One Sure Thing
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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Eyebrows Hands Prayer
Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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Dream Fighting Thinking
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Priority Survival Weather
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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Arena Desert Survival
“But, we’re also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk.” That’s what it’s about, you don’t empower kids if you don’t expose them to risk.
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Empower Expose Kids Understand Work
I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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Cards Good Luck Rare Occasion
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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Fall Military Months
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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Christian Heart Jesus
One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Exercise Tree Vines

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