Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid credits Jesus with getting him through some of the most difficult times in his life, especially after he “reread the Bible from cover to cover and was really struck by the words of Jesus.” He describes that moment as his “personal relationship with Jesus.” started. ”
My faith “has gotten me through the hard times. It’s gotten me through the good times,” Quaid told FOX News Digital.
“Have a good time and be grateful. I rely on God even in hard times. You know, we all need that. It’s something that gives me great joy.”
Last July, the 69-year-old movie star released his debut film Gospel album, fellwhose inspiration came from his own life.
“This is autobiographical,” he said. “It turned out to be part of the story. My spiritual journey.”
“I rode happily down the devil’s highway, my eternal soul hanging on a thread,” the album’s title track goes. “I decided that the wheels were going to have their way and I was going to wind up on the side of the road and be left for dead.”
In the song, the Emmy winner says she was “raised in the blood of Jesus” and “taught me the difference between ‘wrong and right'” but halfway through, the devil is “a friendly stranger… “Come on like,” “Whisky, women, glory, drugs,” and he led himself astray.
Quaid has been open about his cocaine addiction, to the point where he was taking about 2 grams a day.
“I remember going home and having this white light experience that made me feel like I was dead or in jail or losing everything I had. But I didn’t want that to happen. I didn’t,” he said. Said.
Then I “re-read the Bible cover to cover and was really struck by the words of Jesus. From there began a personal relationship with Jesus,” he says, adding that the relationship “has grown over the years. I have done so,” he said.
“So I wrote On the way to heavenThis is a song I wrote for my mother in 1990. “That’s what I called it when I graduated from cocaine school,” he said.
Subtitled “A Gospel Record for Sinners,” the album also includes other similarly named songs such as “Please Don’t Give Up on Me” and “Why Me Lord?” It is recorded. and “What a great friend we have in Jesus!”
Ultimately, the actor insists, faith is “everything.”
“It’s a god-sized hole. I guess we’re all filled with other things,” he thinks. “That’s what’s really important to me. It makes life worth living. It explains a lot of things that we can’t explain in words.”
