How the ‘Red Words of Jesus’ Transformed This Hollywood Legend’s Life

By Mallory Mattingly

Dennis Quaid knows true contentment in life only comes from God, explaining how Christ filled the void he tried to satisfy with drugs for years.

“I was basically doing cocaine pretty much on a daily basis during the ’80s,” he admitted in a conversation with Megyn Kelly in 2018. “I spent many, many a night screaming at God to ‘Please take this away from me and I’ll never do it again, ’cause I’ve only got an hour before I have to be at work. Then at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, I’d go, ‘Oh it’s not so bad.'”

The actor struggled with a cocaine addiction as his career was taking off but eventually got sober in the ’90s, when he rediscovered his faith.

“Everything was going great for me in the world, but I think getting to that point after I did GREAT BALL OF FIRE, I played Jerry Lee Lewis, I went up in rehab about six months after I finished the movie, and when you got out, you still have that same hole,” Quaid explained on TBN’s PRAISE. “You know, you might get sober, but you still have that same hole to fill.”

After he got out of rehab, he decided to pick up the Bible again.

“This time it was the red words of Jesus in the New Testament that really hit me. And that was the beginning of my personal relationship Jesus Christ,” he shared. “You know, I never really gotten that before, and that continues to grow, but that is really what everybody’s looking for, whether they know it or not.”

“I wrote a song about those seasons in life, really, that it’s called ‘God Gets Lonely Too‘ — how He wants to have a relationship with us as much we need a relationship with Him,” he continued.

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The lyrics to the song read:

God made the Heavens, and the waters, and the Earth

Imagined a man and a woman to give birth to all who came before and

All who are yet to come

And He made us from His love, to share His creation

And we lived with Him in the garden of Eden till we ran away

We hid from Him and ran away

In 2023, Quaid shared why he thinks people turn to substances, saying, “We’re all looking for the joy of life, and drugs give that to you and alcohol…really quick.”

“Then they’re fun and then they’re fun with problems, and then they’re just problems after a while,” he explained. “That’s really what we’re looking for, the joy of life, which is our gift, actually, the relationship with God that we all have. It’s at the bottom of it, the joy of being alive.”

Quaid’s experience with addiction isn’t unusual, but no matter what you struggle with, Jesus wants you to give that to Him so He can satisfy the deepest desires of your heart.

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