When Mercy looks on a man, God looks on that man. The question is now that who is the man that God can look upon?

For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
— Isaiah 66:2

So having a humble (poor) and a contrite spirit which will make tremble at His word is not negotiable. 

The Lord will help us all.