Unit 1 KEY QUOTES

"You may ask "What then is the Word of God and how shall it be used…" To preach Christ means to feed the soul make it righteous free it and save it provided it believes the preaching."

Martin Luther - challenged the Catholic Church's path to salvation

"We have made you neither of heaven nor of earth neither mortal nor immortal so that with free choice and dignity you may fashion yourself into whatever form you choose… to be reborn into the higher forms the divine."

Pico della Mirandola - defined Renaissance humanism's focus on human potential

"Every baptized Christian is a priest already not by appointment or ordination from the Pope or any other man but because Christ Himself has begotten him as a priest… in baptism."

Martin Luther - dismantled the church hierarchy by empowering individuals

"Now what shall I [Folly] say about those who find great comfort in soothing self-delusions about pardons for their sins measuring out the times in purgatory… as if they were using mathematical tables?"

Desiderius Erasmus - mocked corrupt religious practices fueling the Reformation

"I pass over the little regard that citizens and relations showed to each other- for their terror was such that a brother even fled from his brother a wife from her husband and what is more uncommon a parent from his own child."

Giovanni Boccaccio - showed how the plague shattered social bonds.