Sadly, we saw this on the BBC news last night (March 5, 2015). The attachments show winged lions with human heads. Evelyn and I photographed these in 2002 at Calah (just south of Mosul, Iraq). They no longer exist.
Interestingly, Calah is also called Nimrud (or Nimrod) and according to Genesis 10 it was Nimrod who built this city. The King James calls him “a mighty warrior” which is a correct, but very misleading, interpretation of his name.
An evil tyrant who led a rebellion against God - by Roy Turkington, Professor of Plant Ecology, University of British Columbia
QuotaBillsWhat has God wrought? - Samuel Morse
The work praises the man. - Irish Proverb
Man is incurably religious. - Ravi Zacharias
I am an atheist... thank God. - Dave Allen
Forgiveness is God's command. - Martin Luther
Adversity makes men think of God. - Livy
Woman was God's second mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Religions change; beer and wine remain. - Hervey Allen
I gave in, and admitted that God was God. - C S Lewis
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J. William Fulbright
God's mercy is his ministry to the miserable. - Chuck Swindoll
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? - Cardinal Richelieu
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. - Noel Coward
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. - Arnold Haultain
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
God never sent hunger without sending something to satisfy it. - Ireland Proverb
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. - Luke 18:27
There lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds. - Alfred Tennyson
When it is a matter of money, all men are of the same religion. - Voltaire
For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church. - Sylvain of Athos
Faith is not just something you have, it's something you do. - Barack Obama
We see only a fragment of life at a time, but God sees the whole. - David Jeremiah
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. - St. Augustine
God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. - Dwight L. Moody
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde
It is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer. - John G. Lake
God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supply. - J Hudson Taylor
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. - Theodore Roosevelt
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. - Elbert Hubbard
Blessed be Thou, our God and Lord of Hosts, who has not created me a woman. - Jewish Prayer
There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others. - Roger Babson
Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. - Peter Mere Latham
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain
Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity. - Ravi Zacharias
What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God. - Malcolm Muggeridge
There's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith. - Billy Graham
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards. - Mark Twain
The church is close, but the road is icey. The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully. - Russian Proverb
When we cling too tightly to what God did last, we often miss what God wants to do next. - Mark Batterson
Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters. - Marianne Williamson
In hard seasons, God is not trying to destroy you. He is trying to bring the best out of you. - Unknown
I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness. - Newt Gingrich
Let us build a church so great that those who come after us may thing us mad to have attempted it. - Unknown
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. - Rick Perry
Going to Church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday
It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component. - Mark Batterson
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. - Mark Twain
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching. - E.M. Bounds
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are the same people. - G K Chesterton
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. - Thomas Paine
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.' - Billy Graham
As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. - Woody Allen
We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around. - Ravi Zacharias
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. - Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer and the Bible became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength. - Rosa Parks
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. - William James
God is dead: but considering the state the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. - Thomas Guthrie