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It is correct, God's grace is the engine of all good works, as the Church teaches. None of that invalidates the need for men to freely choose to do works of love.

Indeed our works do not produce grace in us, grace is unmerited favor .

Does one freely chose something against something God has ordained ( that is what the Bible calls our works) .

Man is saved by faith alone, coming out of that salvation is the desire to do good works that GOD has placed in your heart.

Tts 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost

Our works are the fruit of our salvation ..NOT ITS ROOTS .

Jesus asks can a bad tree bear good fruit? The answer is NO.

James rightly points out that a tree without fruit is dead. BUT the fruit is a result of the life of the tree not the cause of the life in the tree.

Jesus made clear that a man that does work in the name of Christ that HE has not ordained is of no eternal benefit. BUT Fruit that comes out of our salvation and is a work ordained for us to do ( not one we wanted to do for our own reasons) is the work that pleases God and is seen by men as a glory to our God.

We are saved by God for His glory , He ordains our good works for his glory, not our salvation or the recognition of men .

2Ti 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but accordingto his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.