The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

By Cardinal Robert Sarah, Nicolas Diat, Robert Sarah

Book Overview

Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI

In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before.

Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart?

After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621641910
• ISBN13: 9781621641919
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Deep but simple.

I am only a fistful of pages into this book and I noticed I’ve stopped multiple times on every page to reflected on the depth of Cardinal Sarah’s comments. Taking one sentence from a paragraph and I think it is so simple. Yet when I stop 3 times in a paragraph to let things sink in that is a signal this book is deep. One reading won’t be enough. It is challenging me to evaluate and recommit the level of desire I have to know God. Thank you Cardinal Sarah.