'Hot for the Lord': 4 times Chuck Norris publicly proclaimed his faith in Christ
4. Norris said his mother ‘prayed for me all my life, through thick and thin’
In May 2021, Norris wrote an op-ed for WND.com in honor of the 100th birthday of his mother, Wilma Norris Knight, who lived to be 103.
“Mom has been an example of perseverance and faith her whole life,” Norris wrote. “She’s also endured the deaths of her two husbands, a stepson, two grandchildren, and my younger brother Wieland in the Vietnam War. She’s had cancer repeatedly and has gone through roughly 30 different surgeries for a host of issues — and yet she’s still here to tell about it.”
“My mother has prayed for me all my life, through thick and thin,” he added. “When I was born, I almost died from complications. When nearly losing my soul to Hollywood a few decades ago, she was back home praying for my success and salvation. She even prayed for me to find a woman to change my life, and it worked.”
In addition to highlighting his mother’s positive influence on his spiritual life, Norris’ op-ed expressed gratitude for his wife, Gena, as well.
“I equally celebrate my wife, Gena, during this Mother’s Day week. Gena helps me run all my enterprises and is CEO of our new artesian bottled water company, CFORCE. But most of all she is the mother of our twins, the love of my life, and my best friend,” he asserted. “I am overwhelmed with gratitude to God for these two incredible women’s influence in my life.”
“I thank God for you both every day! And I thank you for helping God to make me all I can and should be,” he concluded.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
