From The Habit of Being, a collection of Flannery O'Connor's letters. She pegs it for me. This is exactly how I feel (and probably come off to those non-Catholics I know).
I have a good many books that you might be interested in but I haven't put them forth because I thought they were "too Catholic" and I did not want you to think I was trying to stuff the Church down your throat. This is a peculiar thing—I have the one-fold one-Shepherd instinct as strong as any, to see somebody I know out of the Church is a grief to me, it's to want him in with great urgency. At the same time, the Church can't be put forward by anybody but God and one is apt to do great damage by trying; consequently Catholics may seem very remiss, almost lethargic, about coming forward with the Faith. (Maybe you ain't observed this reticence in me.) I try to be subtle and succeed about as well as the gents in Washington Square ...
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