Growth in Wonder

“...[T]he more the mind has advanced to a more refined purity, the more sublimely it will see God, and it will grow in wonder within itself rather than find the ability to speak of it or a word to explain it. For just as the inexperienced person will be unable to grasp in his mind the power of this gladness, neither will the person who has experienced it be able to explain it in words. It is as if someone wished to describe in words the sweetness of honey to a person who had never tasted anything sweet. The one will in fact not grasp with his ears the agreeable flavor that he has never had in his mouth, while the other will be unable to give any indication in words of sweetness that his taste knows from its own enjoyment. Only by his personal knowledge of the attractive sweetness can he wonder silently within himself at the pleasant flavor that he has experienced.

... In the silence of his mind ... [he] will cry out with the deepest emotion of his heart: ‘Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows them exceedingly.’”
~St. John Cassian (Conf. 12.13.1–2)