Actor and singer Dennis Quaid is soon going to release the DVD for a new record called “Fallen: A Gospel Record for Sinners.” Ahead of the DVD record’s release, Quaid is speaking about his faith, particularly in terms of how following Jesus and sticking to it has gotten him through good times and bad, enabling him to lean on God in the bad times and have an outlet for his gratitude in the good ones.
Speaking to Fox News Digital about his faith and how remaining committed to it has helped him out, Quaid said, “It has gotten me through hard times. It has gotten me through good times, too.” He continued, “Good times and gratitude. I lean on God when it comes to the hard times as well. You know, we all need that. It’s something that gives me a lot of joy.”
Continuing, Quaid told Fox News Digital that though he was raised as a Christian, going to church and Sunday school, he found himself drifting away from his faith as he got older and embraced a life of vice. But, when he managed to kick it and get his “life clean,” he returned to his faith. “[I] read the Bible again, cover to cover, and was really struck by the words of Jesus, and that’s where my personal relationship with Jesus started,” Quaid said. He added, “That’s grown over the years.”
Then, building on that, he added, that he wrote a faith-themed song after he managed to kick his drug habit, saying, “So, I wrote ‘On My Way to Heaven’, which is the song that I wrote for my mother back in 1990. When I got out of cocaine school, as I call it.”
He added that he realized that things other than faith don’t work as pillars of support, saying, “I was relying on other things that didn’t work.” Continuing, he explained, “It was the after. Getting clean all of that – that’s where the personal relationship started, and that really does fill up the hole. It’s a great way to live life.”
That’s when Quaid got to what might have been his most important point, which was that, at the end of the day, faith is “everything,” and that if you don’t have faith, you’ll try to fill it with other things that don’t do the job. “When you get down to it, it’s everything,” he said. He continued, “It’s a God-sized hole.” He added, “I think it’s inside all of us that we fill with other things. It’s really important to me. It makes life worthwhile. It explains a lot of things that we don’t have words for.”
Quaid, before turning to faith, had a serious cocaine addiction that was sending him in the wrong direction and putting his life at risk. Fortunately, he had an experience where he envisioned himself as being dead from his addiction, and that helped him turn his life around and find his way back to God.
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