morning, noon
Here was the very teaching which already was so urgently demanded both by her reason and her heart , which she found nowhere else ; which she found existing one and the same in a female slave , in a country youth , in a learned priest . This was the broad impression which they made upon her mind . When she turned to consider more in detail what it was they taught , or what was implied in that idea of religion which so much approved itself to her , she understood them to say that the Creator of heaven and earth , Almighty , All-good , clothed in all the attributes which philosophy gives Him , the Infinite , had loved the soul of man so much , and her soul in particular , that He had come upon earth in the form of a man , and in that form had gone through sufferings , in order to unite all souls to Him ; that He desired to love , and to be loved ; that He had said so ; that He had called on man to love Him , and did actually bring to pass this loving intercourse of Him and man in those souls who surrendered themselves to Him . She did not go much further than this ; but as much as this was before her mind morning , noon , and night . It pleaded in her ; it importuned her ; it would not be rebuffed . It did not mind her moods , or disgusts , or doubts , or denials , or dismissals , but came again and again . It rose before her , in spite of the contempt , reproach , and persecution which the profession of it involved .