The 43-year-old "Miracles From Heaven" star's Christian faith is important to her and her family and they still make regular visits to the Methodist church back home in Charleston, West Virginia, reported Female First.
"My parents did such a great job of raising my sisters and me in a world where faith was part of our lives. It's the centre of our social lives, as well as a spiritual centre," she said in an interview.
The actress , who has children Violet, 10, Seraphina, seven, and Samuel, four, with ex-husband Ben Affleck, doesn't believe fame changes people in a "huge" way and those who let success go to their heads were probably always driven to want recognition.