AC 5758 & 5759 - knowing the credit belongs to the Lord

AC 5758 [2]
Therefore to claim truth and good to one's self is contrary to the universal that reigns in heaven, as well as contrary to the acknowledgment that all salvation is of mercy, that is, that man of himself is in hell, but is of mercy drawn out from there by the Lord. Man cannot be in humiliation, nor consequently can he receive the Lord's mercy (for this flows in only in humiliation or into a humble heart), unless he acknowledges that there is nothing but evil from himself, and that all good is from the Lord. Without this acknowledgment a man attributes to himself as merit, and at length as righteousness, whatever he does; for to claim to himself the truth and good which are from the Lord is to make himself righteous. This is the source of many evils; for he then regards self in everything that he does for the neighbor, and when he does this he loves himself above all others, whom he then despises, if not in word, yet in heart.

AC 5759
Moreover every one ought to do what is true and good as if of himself, yet believing that it is from the Lord; and when he does so, then as he grows up and increases in intelligence and faith, he puts off fallacy, and at last acknowledges at heart that his every effort of doing good and thinking truth was and is from the Lord.