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 GRYLLSSome 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.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn’t going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It’s all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
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I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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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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My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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I’m probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you’ve ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
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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.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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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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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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