The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI!

Inside a stretch when technology penetrates our lives into 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 ahead of.

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