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I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know how to operate a hammer.
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Jarod Kintz (At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.)
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Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted to indulgences than to the Word.
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Martin Luther (95 Theses)
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Dominus et magister nī Jesus Chrs̄ dicendo, Penitentiam agite etc, omnē vitam fidelium penitentiam esse voluit.
(Our Lord and teacher, Jesus Christ, in saying, "repent," wanted the entire life life of a believer to be repentance.)
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Martin Luther (The 95 Theses: Die 95 Thesen (Bilingual Edition: English / German))
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as having sparked the Reformation, was the publication of Luther’s 95 Theses, occasioned by the selling of indulgences in the German lands.
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Charles River Editors (Martin Luther: The Life of the Man and the Legacy of the Reformer)
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a steadily increasing number of millennials are finally beginning to wake up to the choice we face as a civilization, and to the value they’ve so long overlooked in traditional standards of morality and beauty. They are wondering: is modern culture really so great if it means we substitute Meghan Trainor for Mozart, Emma Sulkowicz for Da Vinci, or Bell Hooks for Plato? Is it really such a step forward that our civilization, which once shed both blood and ink debating Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, is now reduced to considering theses like VICE Magazine’s “Dear Straight Guys: It’s Time to Start Putting Things In Your Butt?” Is this all there is, or can we do better? No,
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Lauren Southern (Barbarians: How The Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed my Generation)
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The hope that every believer could walk with and serve God on equal footing with every other believer and have no mediator but Christ didn’t originate with our generation. Even Martin Luther, great reformationist that he was, didn’t invent this reality, though it was part of his historic posting and protest of 95 theses nailed to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517.
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Mark Perry (Kingdom Churches: New Strategies For A Revival Generation)
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Martin Luther had never been to Paris but his influence was surely felt in that city as it was throughout the Continent. The monk from Wittenberg had exploded onto the religious scene on the day in 1517 he nailed his 95 Theses onto the door of Wittenberg Cathedral and began railing against the corrupt state of the Papacy and the abusive power of indulgences.
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Glenn Cooper (Book of Souls (Will Piper #2))