The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI!

Within a interval when technology penetrates our lives inside 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 prior to.

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

Behind the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more noteworthy 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."