He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless, as Jeremiah says, in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone. (Maximos the Confessor)

The reference to Jeremiah is, supposedly, chapter 17, verse 16 where Jeremiah is praying.

The prophet ends his prayer with, "Let my persecutors be shamed, but do not let me be shamed; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction."

Is this an example of "never thinking the least evil of anyone"? I don't think this even counts as nobly bearing every hardship, reproach, and insult.

We are victims. We are oppressed by others. We suffer as an accident of birth, or time, or place. We are persecuted without good cause.

We are children of God. We are blessed beyond imagination. We are the undeserving recipients of beauty, beneficence, and joy, simply because we are loved.

Each is true, often in the same second.