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# Eamon Duffy

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Eamon Duffy is an Irish historian. He is the emeritus professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow and former president of Magdalene College.

##  Quotes by Eamon Duffy

> [We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eamon-duffy/we-need-open-minds-and-open-hearts-when-we-wrestle-with-the-past-and/)

Eamon Duffy

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be2/eamon-duffy-67096_answers_we-need-open-minds-and-open-hearts-when_208932.png)

> [Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eamon-duffy/symbolic-rearrangement-of-the-past-is-of-course-an-unavoidable-aspect/)

Eamon Duffy

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/eamon-duffy-67096_aspect_symbolic-rearrangement-of-the-past-is-of_1072335.png)

> [If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eamon-duffy/if-history-offers-no-obvious-solutions-however-it-does-at-least/)

Eamon Duffy

[Comfort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comfort/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/eamon-duffy-67096_comfort_if-history-offers-no-obvious-solutions-h_1338440.png)

> [History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eamon-duffy/history-is-tangled-messy-contradictory-but-is-where-we-are/)

Eamon Duffy

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef2/eamon-duffy-67096_contradictory_history-is-tangled-messy-contradictory-b_2422499.png)

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