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Dennis Quaid reveals faith saved him from a life of addiction: \u2018I\u2019m grateful to be alive really every day\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

When life throws challenges at us many rely on faith to guide us, and Dennis Quaid is no different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful to still be here, I\u2019m grateful to be alive really every day,\u201d Quaid told People<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s important to really enjoy your ride in life as much as you can, because there\u2019s a lot of challenges and stuff to knock it down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quaid\u2019s challenges are not unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His struggles with addiction after a successful start to his career eventually led him to check himself into rehab or as he called it, \u201ccocaine school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember going home and having kind of a white light experience that I saw myself either dead or in jail or losing everything I had, and I didn\u2019t want that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 69-year-old actor and musician explained how people who suffer with addiction are looking \u201cto fill a hole inside us,\u201d but once they break the cycle something needs to fill that hole, and it needs to be just as satisfying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Quaid, it was his faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He wrote a song for his mother \u201cto let her know I was okay, because I wasn\u2019t okay before then,\u201d and he began reading various religious texts including the Bible and Quran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s when I started developing a personal relationship,\u201d he recalled. \u201cBefore that, I didn\u2019t have one, even though I grew up as a Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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