The Power of Silence

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n a time when there is more and more noise, and technology and
materialism continue to exert their hold on us, Cardinal Robert Sarah
presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The world generates
so much noise that seeking moments of silence only becomes more
necessary. For Cardinal Sarah, modern man, in repressing the divine,
finds himself in a deep dilemma, an oppressive and anguishing trial. The
Cardinal recalls that life is a silent relationship between what is
most intimate in man and God. Silence is indispensable for hearing the
music of God: prayer arises from silence and returns to silence with
ever greater depth.

In this long and profound conversation with
Nicolas Diat, done within the hallowed walls of silence in the famous
Carthusian monastery of La Grande Chartreux in France, the Cardinal
proposes the question: can those who do not know silence ever attain
truth, beauty, love? The response is undeniable: all that is great and
creative is formed by silence. God is silence.

After the great international success of God or Nothing,
translated into fourteen languages, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to
silence its place of honor and importance. -Although speech
characterizes man, silence is what defines him, because speech acquires
sense only in terms of this silence.- This is the beautiful and
significant message of The Power of Silence.

In this
book, Cardinal Sarah has only one aim, which is summed up in this
thought from his book: -Silence is difficult but it makes a human being
able to allow himself to be led by God. Silence is born of silence.
Through God the silent one we can gain access to silence. And a human
being is unceasingly surprised by the light that bursts forth then.
Silence is more important than any other human work. 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.-

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