Dennis Quaid: It's all God

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Dennis Quaid: It's all God
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Sun, 01-28-2007 - 12:13pm

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/178/story_17846_1.html

from the interview:

"'It's All God': Interview with Dennis Quaid

The star talks about exploring other faiths--and how his core belief in Jesus helped him rebuild his life.

Interview by Laura Sheahen

In a remake of the 1968 film "Yours, Mine, and Ours," Dennis Quaid plays father to 18 children, the combined family of widower Frank and his bride-to-be, the widow Helen (Rene Russo). Quaid--who's played a slimy lawyer in "Traffic," the historical figure Sam Houston in "The Alamo," and real-life baseball pitching phenom Jimmy Morris in "The Rookie"--spoke with Beliefnet about his own family (including recovering from his well-publicized divorce from Meg Ryan), his Christian beliefs, and his charity work in Central America.

Your movie is about a big, blended family that has to find a way to come together. We hear a lot these days about families being in trouble. What qualities do families need to stay together?

DQ: Love. Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

What's your own religious background, and where are you with it now?

DQ:I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really-it's all God.

What things have you explored? Have you traveled places or met certain people that had an impact on you?

DQ: I went around the world three times and made it a point to ask people what it is that they believe and why.

What's the most interesting thing you heard?

DQ: What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.

You went to India with a Baptist minister, right?

DQ: Yes, I've been to India several times. I went with a friend of mine, John Meyrick, who's a Baptist minister. I got baptized when I was nine years old, but he re-baptized me in the Ganges River.

The holy river of India?

Yeah.

What was it like being in such a Hindu environment with a Baptist minister?

DQ: It was very interesting. The great thing about Hindu culture is that they're very inclusive. They really are just as interested in Christianity as we were in finding out about Hinduism, so it was a great exchange of ideas.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together."

(interview continues...)

"It's all God," he said. Do you think so?

Gypsy
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Blessings,

Gypsy

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Sun, 01-28-2007 - 1:57pm

Yep, I do.

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Tue, 01-30-2007 - 4:08pm
I agree with him in that the one thing that holds a family together is love for each other and love for a greater power. Call it by any name but the belief in something greater than yourself is humbling,in my opinion anyway. When one removes ego from their world they have the ability to move around it that much more smoothly. I notice this when I let go of anger(somedays are easier than others) and not react to something trivial that is said simply because I can. The "good" days are the ones where I let go of my ego and hold the belief that there is something bigger than me at work. For me, it's called God, but whatever it's name, recognizing it is what counts.