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Former “NYPD Blue” star Ricky Schroder has long been one of Hollywood’s few openly conservative Christians. In a new interview, he’s criticizing society for telling “people they are Gods.”
“I pray a lot”
“I pray a lot,” Schroder, 53, told Fox News. “I haven’t always prayed a lot, but now I do. And so I pray several times a day just to stay in touch with my creator, with my God.”
“We live in a society that wants to teach people that they are gods or that they are in charge,” he continued. “But when you submit to the true power of God and continue to submit, it becomes easier.”
Schroder went on to talk about the power of prayer by revealing three simple ways people can fight for their daily freedom.
“Think for yourself,” Schroder said. “Don’t let others think for you. You know, do your research. Do your own critical analysis. Don’t trust what people say.”
“Pray. If you believe in the Lord, pray because He gives you clarity,” he added. “And, I guess, take care of yourself. Put yourself at the top of the list so that your physical, emotional and spiritual type is ready to face the world. The world can be a difficult and difficult place.”
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Schroder’s advice to his younger self
Schroder, who started out as a child in the 1979 film The samplehe also talked about the advice he would give to his younger self.
“Do not lose sight of the Lord,” he advised. «Because in Hollywood it is easy to lose sight of the Lord. You get tempted by so many things and temptation can just lead you astray. And so, I would say if I could talk to my younger self, I would say, ‘Read your Bible more.’”
“But I never fit in with Hollywood,” he admitted. “It was never my wish, let’s say. I was put in ‘The Champ’ when I was 7 and I turned 8, making ‘The Champ.’ And so it was an interesting path to go down, when you hadn’t made those choices originally.
“Other people made choices for you and put you on a path,” Schroder explained. “But today I make my choices. And so, that’s why I decided to leave Hollywood, to move back to Colorado, and I still want to tell stories. But a different forum, a different platform.”
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Schroder as a parent
Schroder is father to sons Holden, 32, and Luke, 30, and daughters Cambrie, 27, and Faith, 22, who he shares with his ex-wife Andrea Bernard. The former couple was married from 1992 until their divorce in 2016. In this new interview, Schroder talked about the professional and personal advice he would give his daughters.
“None of them are actresses or aspiring actresses fortunately,” she said. “I can’t really give them much advice on modeling, other than keeping your clothes on. But it’s a tough time out there for our kids.”
“There are a lot of influences on them. And so my advice to them is, as a father, find a good man who is honest and who doesn’t lie to you and only has eyes for you, and you only have eyes for him and build a life together and have common goals, ” he concluded. “Too much today we see couples with separate goals. It has the of him. She has his differences, but they have no common goals. And so I tell my daughters things like that.”
It’s rare to find a conservative Christian star in Hollywood these days, so we applaud Schroder for continuing to use his platform to promote traditional values.
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