That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is probable: but one can no more pray too much than one can love too much, and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint Jerome would be heretics.

• 他的祈祷具有一种不同于一般人的憧憬，那是极可能的，但是必须先有极其殷切的爱，才能作出极其殷切的祈祷，如果祈祷的内容越出了经文的规范，便被认为异端，那么，圣泰莉莎和圣热罗姆岂不都成了异端了?