Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him.
communication curiosity humility openness
Download Image Share on X Share on Facebook

About This Quote

About Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europeand Started the Protestant Reformation

Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europeand Started the Protestant Reformation.

More quotes by Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europeand Started the Protestant Reformation

“The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.”
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europeand Started the Protestant Reformation
change communication persuasion relevance

“It is often the parishioners, the men and women in the pews, who set the tone.”
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europeand Started the Protestant Reformation
bottom-up change culture

“Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.”
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europeand Started the Protestant Reformation
change fluidity innovation openness

“A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument”
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europeand Started the Protestant Reformation
attention education empathy narrative

“Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.”
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europeand Started the Protestant Reformation
communication leadership media

“Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or a...”
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europeand Started the Protestant Reformation
authenticity culture engagement persuasion
View all quotes by Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europeand Started the Protestant Reformation →

Related Quotes

“God can use the jawbone of an ass!”
— Winkie Pratney
communication humor spirituality

“Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.”
— John Powell, Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication
communication happiness

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. ...”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
communication fear

“Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.”
— James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams
curiosity educational-philosophy love spirituality

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”
— Freya Stark
curiosity nature

“If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.”
— Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
curiosity environment nature perception

“I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.”
— Julieanne O'Connor
humility humility-and-purpose humility-in-greatness humility-quotes

“He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.”
— Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
humility love modesty

“ The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expresse...”
— William Bernard Ullathorne
humility meekness peace