“Love thinketh no evil.” (1 Corinthians 13:5, KJV)
He that loves his friend construes what his friend does, in the best sense. 'Love thinketh no evil' (I Cor. 13:5). Malice interprets all in the worst sense. Love interprets all in the best sense. It is an excellent commentator upon providence; it thinks no evil.
He that loves God, has a good opinion of God; though He afflicts sharply, the soul takes all well. This is the language of a gracious spirit: 'My God sees what a hard heart I have, therefore He drives in one wedge of affliction after another, to break my heart. He knows how full I am of bad humours, how sick of a pleurisy, therefore He lets blood, to save my life. This severe dispensation is either to mortify some corruption, or to exercise some grace. How good is God, that will not let me alone in my sins, but smites my body to save my soul!'
Thus he that loves God takes everything in good part. Love puts a candid gloss upon all God's actions. You who are apt to murmur at God, as if He had dealt ill with you, be humbled for this; say thus with yourself, 'If I loved God more, I should have better thoughts of God.' It is Satan that makes us have good thoughts of ourselves, and hard thoughts of God. Love takes all in the fairest sense; it thinketh no evil.
— Thomas Watson, All Things for Good