{"id":1983249,"date":"2023-07-26T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dennis-quaid-details-finding-faith-getting-sober-grateful-to-still-be-here\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:00:28","slug":"dennis-quaid-details-finding-faith-getting-sober-grateful-to-still-be-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dennis-quaid-details-finding-faith-getting-sober-grateful-to-still-be-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Quaid shares his journey to faith and sobriety, expressing gratitude for his survival."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdennis-quaid-details-finding-faith-getting-sober-grateful-to-still-be-here%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1983249&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Actor Dennis Quaid Discusses the Benefits of Sobriety and Faith<\/h2>\n<p>Actor \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Dennis Quaid<\/a> has \u2064been open about his struggle with addiction over the years,\u2062 and \u200dnow he\u2019s discussing the benefits of staying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/alcohol\">sober<\/a> \u2064 and \u200crelying \u2062on his faith in a higher\u2063 power.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful to\u200d still be here, I\u2019m grateful \u200dto be alive really every day,\u201d the \u201cYours, Mine, and Ours\u201d actor\u200d said during an interview with\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/dennis-quaid-on-faith-addiction-love-and-his-hollywood-journey-7565430\">People<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s important to really enjoy your ride in life as much \u200das you can, because there\u2019s a lot \u2064of challenges and stuff to knock it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 69-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\">star<\/a> previously revealed some of \u2062his experiences \u200dwhile battling addiction. \u201cI remember going home and having kind of a white light experience that I saw\u2063 myself \u200beither \u2062dead or in jail or \u200blosing everything I had, and I didn\u2019t want that,\u201d \u2063he told \u2063the publication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in a band and we got a record gig. \u2026 They broke up the night \u2063they \u2063got it, and they broke up because\u2063 of me, because I was not reliable,\u201d Quaid said.<\/p>\n<p>Quaid\u200b recalled\u2063 writing\u2062 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dennis-quaid-details-finding-faith-getting-sober-grateful-to-still-be-here\/\" title=\"Dennis Quaid shares his journey to faith and sobriety, expressing gratitude for his survival.\">faith-based song<\/a> \u2063for his mother to let her know he\u200b was OK after \u2064not doing\u200c well for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">long time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when I \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-enlists-nuclear-disarmament-proponents-to-study-icbm-alternatives\/\" title=\"Biden Enlists Nuclear Disarmament Proponents To Study ICBM Alternatives\">started developing<\/a> a personal\u200c relationship,\u201d he says.\u2064 \u201cBefore that, I didn\u2019t have one, even though I\u200c grew up as a Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI \u200bgrew up at\u200d the Baptist church; I love the\u200c hymns that I remember from being a kid,\u201d Quaid continued. \u201cThe songs are self-reflective and self-examining, not churchy. All \u2063of us \u2064have a relationship with God, whether you\u2019re\u200d a Christian or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quaid was once described by The \u2064Guardian as one of the best actors \u200cto never receive an Academy\u2063 Award nomination. He\u2063 rose\u200d to fame in the \u201970s and has \u2063been appearing in films consistently ever since. The actor also discussed how his experience with addiction shaped his life.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1690455510071000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0zc8zwWGoXeRzcNJLiJVWI\">CLICK HERE TO\u2063 GET THE\u200d DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a struggle,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re all looking for the joy of life, and drugs give that to you and\u2062 alcohol and whatever it\u200d is \u200dfor anybody\u200d give\u200b that to you really quick. Then they\u2019re fun and\u200c then they\u2019re fun \u2062with problems, and then they\u2019re\u2062 just\u200d problems after a while. That\u2019s really what \u2064we\u2019re\u200d looking\u2063 for, the joy of life,\u200c which is our gift,\u200c actually, the\u2062 relationship with God that we all \u200bhave.\u200d It\u2019s at \u200dthe\u200b bottom of it, the joy of being alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>interview. Quaid emphasizes the importance of sobriety and faith in his life, expressing gratitude for his existence every day. The actor&#8217;s battle with addiction has been well-documented, but he now focuses on the positive aspects of staying sober and relying on a higher power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1983250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}