Matt Hammitt Quotations

Serve your neighbors (like your next-door neighbors). It's a good way to get to know them better and show them what Jesus is about.

Seeing the way that God has been faithful to work what appears to be a tragedy for our good and His glory has been the greatest source of joy and comfort. The gift of a son is pretty amazing as well.

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

When I wrote "Lead Me," I had no idea that God was preparing me to lead my family through a season of great adversity. It was only a month after Pieces of a Real Heart was released that my wife, Sarah, and I found out that our son had a severe, life-threatening heart defect.

I think we all knew it was the kind of song that had a message people could relate to. Everybody, at any given point in their life, is going through something. That's life. Always a new challenge. As soon as we think we've got the one thing down, a roof caves in. You just never know what's going to happen.

Just to find the time to think about everything, just trying to wrap our heads around everything that was going on, and to try to go out and headline a show every night was really hard.

And then everything we went through, getting through it together, trusting God, watching God work it out, watching everything fall into place, and on top of that, making what we think is the best record we've ever done, has just really proven to us that God can take anything and use it for his good.

As soon as the standby light went out on his amp and he hit that first chord, Chris and I just kind of looked at each other.

He has great tone. For some reason, 99 out of 100 guitar players have bad tone. But with Pete, the tone was perfect. It just fit.