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

I am a product [...of] endless books.

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.