You are not saved BECAUSE of your works. You love your neighbor BECAUSE you love God and your neighbor is God's creation. Not only that, "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, etc." and "By their WORKS ye shall know them." And also, "if ye have done it unto the least of these ye have done it unto me." If you don't love your neighbor than you don't love God. So yes, saved by grace but it either shows or does not show.
Finally, good works can build treasure in heaven and thus lead us to God.
Mark 10:21
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."