J.I. Packer on Grace

Ill never forget the first time I read these two paragraphs From Knowing God pg 117
    “To be sure, there have always been some who have found the thought of grace so overwhelmingly wonderful that they could never get over it. Grace has become the constant theme of their talk and prayers. They have written hymns about it, some of the finest in the language- and it takes deep feeling to produce a good hymn. They have fought for it, accepting ridicule and loss of privilege if need be as the price of their status; as Paul fought the Judaizers, so Augustine fought the Pelagians, and the Reformers fought scholasticism, and the spiritual descendants of Paul and Augustine and the Reformers have been fighting Romanising and Pelagianising doctrines ever since. With Paul, their testimony is, “By the grace of God I am what I am” (1 Cor. 15:10), and their rule of life is, “I do not frustrate the grace of God” (Gal. 2:21).
    But many church people are not like this. They may pay lip service to the idea of grace, but their they stop. Their conception of grace is not so much debased as non-existent. The thought means nothing to them; it does not touch their experience at all. Talk to them about the church’s heating, or last year’s accounts, and their are with you at once; but speak to them about the realities to which the word “Grace” points, and their attitude is one of differential blankness. They do not accuse you of talking non-sense; they do not doubt that your words have meaning; but they feel that, whatever it is that you are talking about, it is beyond them, and the longer they have lived without it the surer they are that at their stage of life they do not really need it.”