Is it your good deeds which lead to salvation, or is it the grace of God? In my experience you can only stay in the contradiction and stick to the paradox.
Marie Louise von Franz
If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly.
Martin Luther
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
Titus 2:11