a great risk Christians idolaters lose meaning silence. words inebriat — Robert Sarah, Power Silence: Dictatorship Noise

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There is a great risk that Christians may become idolaters if they lose the meaning of silence. Our words inebriate us; they confine us to what is created. Bewitched and imprisoned by the noise of human speech, we run the risk of designing worship to our specifications, a god in our own image. Words bring with them the temptation of the golden calf! Only silence leads man beyond words, to the mystery, to worship in spirit and in truth. Silence is a form of mystagogy; it brings us into the mystery without spoiling it.

Robert Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

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