Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
BEAR GRYLLSChristianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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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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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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