I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
BEAR GRYLLSChristianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
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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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The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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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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You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
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You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.
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