"The intellectual life is not the only road to God, nor the
safest, but we find it to be a road, and it may be the appointed
road for us. Of course it will be so only so long as we keep the
impulse pure and disinterested; we may come to love knowledge -
our knowing - more than the thing known: to delight not in our
talents but in the fact that they are ours, or even in the
reputation they bring us. Every success in a scholar's life
increases this danger. If it becomes irresistible, he must give
up his scholarly work. The time for plucking out the right eye
has arrived. "  - C. S. Lewis Do Miracles Happen Today?  Thomas
Jefferson said they can't happen ever. This is why he took a
razor blade and cut out all the miracles and references to
supernatural occurrences in the Bible and republished it as The
Jefferson Bible. For those who don?t believe in miracles, their
reasoning basically boils down to this: ?I?ve never seen a
miracle. Miracles defy the laws of nature, so there must never
have been a miracle. And th