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> [“Now, celebrations become tiring because they unfold in noisy chattering. The liturgy is sick. The most striking symptom of this sickness is perhaps the omnipresence of the microphone. It has become so indispensable that one wonders how priests were able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/now-celebrations-become-tiring-because-they-unfold-in-noisy/)

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## More by Robert Sarah

> [“There are so many priests who enter triumphantly and walk up toward the altar, greeting people left and right, so as to appear sympathetic.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/there-are-so-many-priests-who-enter-triumphantly-and-walk-up-toward/)

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> [“God’s only power is to love silently. He is incapable of any oppressive force. God is love, and love cannot compel, force, or oppress…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/god-s-only-power-is-to-love-silently-he-is-incapable-of-any/)

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> [“This age detests the things that silence brings us to: encounter, wonder, and kneeling before God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/this-age-detests-the-things-that-silence-brings-us-to-encounter/)

[Robert Sarah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sarah/)

> [“Celebration toward the east fosters silence. Indeed, there is less temptation for the celebrant to monopolize the conversation. Facing the Lord, he is less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/celebration-toward-the-east-fosters-silence-indeed-there-is-less/)

[Robert Sarah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sarah/)

> [“here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take place in the liturgy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/here-is-my-hope-god-willing-when-he-wills-and-as-he-wills-the-reform/)

[Robert Sarah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sarah/)

> [“Words often bring with them the illusion of transparency, as though they allowed us to understand everything, control everything, put everything in order. Modernity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/words-often-bring-with-them-the-illusion-of-transparency-as-though/)

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> [“Through silence, we return to our heavenly origin, where there is nothing but calm, peace, repose, silent contemplation, and adoration of the radiant face…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/through-silence-we-return-to-our-heavenly-origin-where-there-is/)

[Robert Sarah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sarah/)

> [“It is the same with priestly ordination. In silence, through the sacrament of Holy Orders, a man becomes not only an alter Christus, another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/it-is-the-same-with-priestly-ordination-in-silence-through-the/)

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> [“I consider the days of old, I remember the years long ago. I commune with my heart in the night; I meditate and search…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/i-consider-the-days-of-old-i-remember-the-years-long-ago-i-commune/)

[Robert Sarah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sarah/)

> [“Silence is man’s greatest freedom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/silence-is-man-s-greatest-freedom/)

[Robert Sarah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sarah/)

> [“The devil invites mankind to rebellion and disorder. With his litany of subterfuges, he sows discord and incites us to pour out our hatred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/the-devil-invites-mankind-to-rebellion-and-disorder-with-his-litany/)

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> [“Celebrating Mass facing east, by breaking up the face-to-face, private get-together, helps to prevent turning the liturgy into the community's celebration of itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/celebrating-mass-facing-east-by-breaking-up-the-face-to-face-private/)

[Robert Sarah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sarah/)

> [“For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the rather dismal realities that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/for-someone-who-is-far-from-god-silence-is-a-difficult-confrontation/)

[Robert Sarah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sarah/)

> [“Some priests unfaithful to the "memory" of Jesus insist more on the festive aspect and the fraternal dimension of the Mass than on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/some-priests-unfaithful-to-the-memory-of-jesus-insist-more-on-the/)

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> [“It is necessary to protect precious silence from all parasitical noise. The noise of our “ego”, which never stops claiming its rights, plunging us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/it-is-necessary-to-protect-precious-silence-from-all-parasitical/)

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