What works have you done that have contributed to your salvation.
" What works have you done that have contributed to your salvation."
I suppose it depends on what you define as works. Whatever I do which tends to focus me on Christ, which moves me a bit more towards dying to the self, allows me to receive more of the fire of the Holy Spirit, which purifies and thus advance in theosis. I haven't achieved theosis. Very few of us will achieve anything approaching complete theosis in this life. But no matter what the ascetical practices I might adopt, no matter if I become a hesychast, nothing I do can effectuate, of itself, theosis. Theosis is only by the grace of God. But you already knew that, P-M.
"And just as tools without the workmen and the workmen without tools are unable to do anything, just so neither is faith without the fulfillment of the commandments, nor the fulfillment of the commandments without faith able to renew and re-create us, nor make us new men from the old. But, whenever we do possess both within a heart free of doubt, then we shall become the Master's vessels, be made fit for the reception of the spiritual myrrh. Then, too, will He Who makes darkness His hiding-place renew us by the gift of the Holy Spirit and raise us up new instead of old, and part the veil of His darkness and carry our mind away and allow it to peek as through some narrow opening, and grant it to see Him, still somehow dimly, and one might look on the disk of the sun or moon. It is then that the mind is taught -- or, put better -- knows and is initiated, and is assumed that that truly in no other way does one arrive at even partial participation in the ineffable good things of God except by way of the heart's humility, unwavering faith, and the resolve of the whole soul to renounce all the world and everything in it, together with one's own will, in order to keep all of God's commandments." +Symeon the New Theologian