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“(An) Analogy has been drawn between the metaphysical experience of prayer and an ordinary human friendship. This may progress from initial civility, through engagement in common business, to conversations of mutual interest punctuated with companionable silences; after that meetings may become occasions for sudden outbursts of passionate conviction or declarations of love. ”
― Adrian House, Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life

“It was a thought which made me reflect that though civilised man has spent untold treasure on preserving ancient buildings and works of art fashioned by the hand of man, yet he destroys these creatures which typify the perfection of ageless beauty and grace.”
― Adrian House, The Great Safari: The Lives of George and Joy Adamson, Famous for Born Free

“It was a thought which made me reflect that though civilised man has spent untold treasure on preserving ancient buildings and works of art fashioned by the hand of man, yet he destroys these creatures which typify the perfection of agelessw beauty and grace.”
― Adrian House, The Great Safari: The Lives of George and Joy Adamson, Famous for Born Free

“Although the text of this first, primitive, Rule has never been found, there is a general consensus that in essence it required: Poverty, Chastity, Humility, Obedience to God, Prayer, Work, Harmony, and Preaching.”
― Adrian House, Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life

“Als het verkeerd is om een menselijk wezen in elkaar te slaan, hem zijn nagels uit te trekken, hem onvrijwillig aan medische experimenten bloot te stellen, hem zonder proces op te sluiten of ter dood te brengen, is het net zo goed moreel fout om een dier op deze manier te behandelen. Hoe hoger ontwikkeld het dier is, des te erger kan het lijden, en aangezien het wordt gehinderd door de dubbele handicap dat het onze taal niet spreekt en geen stemrecht heeft, hebben wij een dubbele plicht om het te beschermen. Als dieren onnodig verwondingen oplopen, gevangen worden genomen of sterven, is dat de smet op ons allemaal.”
― Adrian House, The Great Safari: The Lives of George and Joy Adamson, Famous for Born Free