I've heard a lot of different ways people talk about conversion, but there's something about the three stages that Chesterton outlines from his own conversion that I very much appreciate and have seen in many stories. He captures in his inimitable style some aspects of the path of conversion that I don't hear spoken of elsewhere. So I decided to just read passages from Chesterton wherein he describes these three stages of becoming fair to the Church, then fond of the Church, and then, penultimately, fearful of the Church. (Ultimately, the last stage is becoming faithful, but he's not talking about that in this chapter of his book.) 

And the book is The Catholic Church and Conversion, and can be found here in text form: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/the-catholic-church-and-conversion-13705

and here in book form: https://www.ignatius.com/The-Catholic-Church-and-Conversion-P239.aspx

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