The study of the peculiarities of religious communication belongs to promising directions in modern linguistics. Researchers of religious discourse state that metaphors are one of the most distinct features of the language of religion and play a pragmatic role in religious communication. The article is about modern religious texts, including sermons, messages, appeals to Ukrainian religious figures. The article also examines metaphors concerning a way and the specifics of their use.
 Way-related metaphors for the designation of human life are traditional, rooted in the spatial experience of reality. In religious discourse, the source of the way-related metaphors is the texts of Scripture, they usually represent the life choice of a Christian, which is generally denoted as a righteous path, leading to salvation and as an unjust path, leading to the death of the human spirit. Both paths are specified through metaphors containing axiological characteristics of human life guidelines. The emphasis in religious discourse is on the transfer of the truth, thus the purpose of life and person’s behaviour is a salvation, but a person cannot grasp this path on their own, they may not see it, this idea is transmitted by metaphors for the designation of accompaniment on the way taken by God, Christ, Holy Mother. Sins, unjust actions are compared to a lost man, lost his orientation, got off the way, rejected to the sidelines.
 Life as a way is categorized through tokens to designate the way: the way, the road, through verbs that mark motion: go, step, follow the way. Way-related metaphors can be represented as a journey, a life-long journey with the Christian community, as well as a fragment, limited by an event.
 Specific for contemporary religious works is the projection of the way-related metaphors to Ukrainian realities: the severe and bloody struggle of Ukraine for freedom is determined by the metaphor of the Crossroad of Ukraine, the road to the glorious resurrection – spiritual and national.
 Way-related metaphors facilitate the transfer of truths from the sphere of sacred and facilitate the addressees of their perception.