I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
BEAR GRYLLSFaith is personal if it’s to be real.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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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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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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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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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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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.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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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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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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Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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