“With a deep sense of my great responsibility always upon me when I exercise my art, one of my most constant and most earnest endeavors has been to exhibit in all my good people some faint reflections of our great Master, and unostentatiously to lead the reader up to those teachings as the great source of all moral goodness. All my strongest illustrations are drawn from the New Testament; all my social abuses are shown as departures from its spirit; all my good people are humble, charitable, faithful, and forgiving. Over and over again, I claim them in express words as disciples of the Founder of our religion; but I must admit that to a man (or a woman) they all arise and wash their faces, and do not appear unto men to fast.” (As Quoted in http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickens4.html)

Dickens's religious emphasis, in his work, is indeed on the New Testament rather than on the Old, on Christ rather than on Jehovah. That is why we find great similarities between Jesus Christ and Sydney Carton, who is a selfless martyr whose death enables the happiness of his beloved and ensures his own immortality in A Tale of Two Cities.

B. Basic Concepts of Christianity: Love, Sacrifice and Resurrection
Remember! - It is Christianity TO DO GOOD always - even to those who do evil to us.  It is Christianity to love our neighbor as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful, and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, and never make a boast of them, or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to shew that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us our sins and mistakes, and enable us to live and die in Peace.
                      -------From the Christmas Songs, Charles Dickens (Note: This prayer was written by Charles Dickens expressly for his children in his book entitled "The Life of Our Lord" in 1849.) 
The key to the Christian faith is the teachings of Jesus Christ. The cornerstone of Jesus' life is love, not just for those who we are close to, but for those who hate and hurt us. This love is not easy, but this love is what the world needs. If only we stopped hating those who hate us, or even just stopped ignoring those who are rejected by the society, the world, our neighbors, we would be happier and more peaceful.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends…... And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.英语作文