Quite right -- I would take Salvation by faith as follows: it's IMPOSSIBLE for us humans to meet God's strict criteria. But God WANTS us to be saved, so His divine mercy helps us to help ourselves. Our faith, our deeds etc. are nothing more than God working through us -- we truly do nothing more than surrendering to His will to do these deeds. And that is the action we take, that IS the point: we can't help doing good deeds because HE wills it, because we must show some amount of surrender to HIS will
Mat 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mat 19:25 When his disciples heard [it], they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
Mat 19:26 But Jesus beheld [them], and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible