quote is this paragraph a quote from somewhere if so it needs quotation marks talk on october luther approached the competent church authorities with his pressing call for reform on this day he presented them with his theses and the request that they call a halt to the unworthy activities of the indulgence preachers when the bishops did not respond or when they sought merely to divert him luther circulated his theses privately the ninety five theses spread quickly and were printed in nuremberg leipzig and basel suddenly they were echoing throughout germany and beyond its borders