From Karl Barth's The Christian Life:
From TF Torrance's Apocalypse Today:
Grace is the presence, event, and revelation of what the human cannot think or do or reach or attain or grasp, but of what is, in virtue of its coming from God, the most simple, true and real of all things for those to whom it is addressed and who recognise it. Grace is the factual overcoming of the distinction between God and humanity, creator and creature, heaven and earth -- something that cannot be grasped in any theory or brought about by any technique or human practice. ... Grace is God's sovereign intervention on the human’s behalf. The work and gift of this grace of his is the freedom of the children of God -- their freedom to call upon him as Father.
From TF Torrance's Apocalypse Today:
[The Gospel] is indeed God's almighty power, and so the Gospel is still the secret of what happens in the world. This Gospel of pure grace, which deals with [us] solely on the basis of the death of Christ, cuts away the ground from beneath our feet and passes a total judgment upon the world for which Christ died. Because it is the Gospel of universal forgiveness, it bears at its heart a divine judgment which is the crucial fact that determines all history, so that every crisis in human affairs falls under its action and reflects its meaning.