Five quotes on forgiveness

I was talking with someone this week about the power of forgiveness for both the person who has acted to be forgiving and the person who feels they have been forgiven. Here are five quotes on forgiveness.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Without forgiveness, there's no future. Desmond Tutu.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right. JK Rowling.