It is becoming increasingly difficult to be marveled or to engage in the act of marveling. Originally the word meant "wonderful things," from the Latin mirabilia. While the word wonderful is still in daily use, few of us are ever wonder-full. We who no longer can be astonished are impoverished by this loss of a sense of profound wonder, so profound as to fill us to the full. . . .
God works a million marvels a minute, for those with eyes to bulge and mouths to gape open in wonder.
— Edward Hays, The Old Hermit's Almanac