1517 Quotes & Sayings

...a copy of his Ninty-five Theses, a formal declaration of his arguments against indulgences. This is the document that Luther is said to have nailed to the church door in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. If it happened at all, it was not quite as dramatic as it sounds - this was not an uncommon way to distribute pamphlets and polemics, and the Theses, written in Latin, would not have been accessible to most of the lay townspeople. But the timing - on the eve of All Saints' Day - made the challenge auspicious, and the document was soon thereafter distributed in a German translation by a local printer. — Philip Ball

Lutheran Reformation, from its inception in 1517 down to the Peasants' War of 1525, at once absorbed, and was absorbed by, all the revolutionary elements of the time. — Ernest Belfort Bax

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership. — Tony Dungy

God is a thing I know when I see, and I see It all over, in Megan, in the night sky and the morning sun, and especially in Grandmother. — Emily Henry

One should steal only where one cannot rob. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. — Thomas Browne

And in her long nights, in her long house of smoke and miller's stones, she baked the bread we eat in dreams, strangest loaves, her pies full of anguish and days long dead, her fairy-haunted gingerbread, her cakes wet with tears. — Catherynne M Valente

One spark of genius,suddenly the entire world is filled with anticipation — Elliot Kesebonye

Starting with Martin Luther's rebellion against the Church of Rome in 1517, led to widespread religious wars founded on philosophical differences: one side took Church authority and tradition as the criterion of truth, the other appealed instead to the Spirit of God acting within the individual believer. — David Hume

The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don't really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie. — Seanan McGuire