The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!