Remarriage more positive evaluations of their lives compared to divorced individuals who remain single. While divorced couples have a higher risk of developing a wide range of physical and mental health problems, remarrying may attenuate, but not eliminate, some of these health risks. Second Marriages: Triumph of decision over hope? It is often assumed that second marriages are riskier than first marriages - “The triumph of hope over experience” as popularised by Samuel Johnson in 1791. A new analysis of data commissioned from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) challenges this assumption. In fact, second marriages overall do consistently better than
Hope salvation for Christians: "For in hope we have been saved...if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it" (see Romans 8:25). According to the "Holman Bible Dictionary", hope is a "[t]rustful expectation...the anticipation of a favorable outcome under God's guidance."" In "The Pilgrim's Progress", it is Hopeful who comforts Christian in Doubting Castle; while conversely at the entrance to Dante's Hell were the words, "Lay down all hope, you that go in by me". In historic literature of Hinduism, hope is referred to with "Pratidhi" (Sanskrit: प्रतिधी), or "Apêksh" (Sanskrit: अपेक्ष). It is