“The Lord helps those who help themselves”
We help ourselves by following God, doing good works in faith, seeking righteousness and His will
It's the most-quoted Bible verse that isn't actually in the Bible! My theory is that it likely originated from typically American pragmatism: the outlook that “what works is right” and (more generally); the can-do, self-reliant, nothing-is-impossible, rugged individualist American ethos. Pragmatism is no test of truth, but it has truthful elements in it.