Quotes by Bear Grylls

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

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

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.

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.